Tag: AWS Config

AWS Config is a service that tracks configuration changes of AWS resources in your AWS account.  AWS Config uses the configuration recorder to create a configuration item whenever it detects a change to a resource type that it is recording. For example, if AWS Config is recording Amazon S3 buckets, AWS Config creates a configuration […]

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalog of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. In addition, organizations can centrally manage deployed IT services, applications, resources, and metadata. This helps you […]

Organizations require their cloud environment to be secure and compliant according to their governance policies. AWS Config provides customers configuration details of their resources in AWS accounts. Customers can make use of AWS Config managed rules, AWS Config custom rules or conformance packs to get to know the configuration details of their resources quickly. Being aware of […]

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AWS Config evaluates the configuration settings of your AWS resources. You do this by creating AWS Config rules, which represent your ideal configuration settings. AWS Config provides customizable, predefined rules called AWS Managed Rules to help you get started. While AWS Config continuously tracks the configuration changes that occur among your resources, it checks whether […]

As customers become more mature in the cloud, they will start to investigate how they can utilize additional AWS services in order to meet their goals. In many cases the initial phase will involve some research and testing of the service before deploying it across their cloud environment. For customers that may need to maintain […]

In this post, we will show how you can deploy AWS Config custom rules across accounts in your organization, leveraging the Rules Development Kit (RDK), an open source development kit designed to support intuitive and efficient “Compliance-as-Code” workflows. With AWS Config custom rules, you can define custom logic for the desired configuration state of your […]

AWS Audit Manager is a fully-managed service that provides prebuilt frameworks for common industry standards and regulations, and that automates the continual collection of evidence to help you prepare for an audit. The continuous and automated gathering of evidence related to your AWS resource usage helps simplify risk assessment and compliance with regulations and industry […]

Organizations managing cloud infrastructure in AWS need effective mechanisms to audit operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance. Early this year we announced the availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake a managed data lake that lets organizations aggregate, immutably store, and query events recorded by CloudTrail for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. CloudTrail […]

Today, we’re excited to announce a new search feature that allows customers to perform targeted searches by multiple criteria, group the results and send the data to an assessment report. Customers can more easily find the evidence they need and, organize it without the need to add it to a report. Customers can then generate their […]