AWS Config

AWS Config: config management db

12/Feb/2021

AWS Config

AWS Config

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Full-name: AWS Config
Short-name: AWS Config
Provides: config management db
Resource: ConfigurationAggregator
Year: 2014
Home: https://aws.amazon.com/config/

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Products that are often seen with AWS Config, descending order of frequency:

Product seen with

Prefix	Name	Description
AWS	Organizations	cross-account governance
Amazon	Simple Notification Service (SNS)	pub/sub messaging
Amazon	Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	virtual machine
Amazon	Simple Storage Service (S3)	object storage
AWS	Systems Manager (SSM)	operations tools
Amazon	CloudWatch	monitoring
Amazon	DynamoDB	key-value/document db
AWS	Identity & Access Mgmt (IAM)	identity & access
AWS	CloudFormation	infra as code (decl)
AWS	CloudTrail	operations planes audit log

Products that are related in Moca:

Prefix	Name	Description
AWS	Config	config management db
AWS	OpsWorks	managed Chef/Puppet
AWS	Systems Manager (SSM)	operations tools

News

2021/01/07: New AWS Config console streamlines resource configuration and compliance management
2020/12/30: AWS Control Tower console shows more detail about external AWS Config rules
2020/12/22: AWS Config launches ability to save advanced queries
2020/12/22: Introducing process check rules with AWS Config conformance packs
2020/12/15: Introducing AWS Systems Manager Application Manager
2020/12/11: AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with ServiceNow ITSM
2020/12/11: Simplify EC2 provisioning and viewing cloud resources in the ServiceNow CMDB with AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow
2020/11/24: AWS Config now supports organization-wide resource data aggregation in a delegated administrator account
2020/11/11: AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account, multi-region summary of AWS Config compliance
2020/11/05: AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for easier diagnosis and remediation of alarms
2020/10/29: Customers can now use Jira Service Desk to track operational items related to AWS resources
2020/10/29: Simplify provisioning of compute resources with version 1.7 of the AWS Service Management Connector for Jira Service Desk
2020/10/08: AWS Lambda Extensions: a new way to integrate Lambda with operational tools (in preview)
2020/10/02: AWS Config adds 15 new sample conformance pack templates and introduces simplified setup experience for conformance packs
2020/10/01: AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection now supports CloudFormation Registry resource types
2020/09/30: AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management Solution is Generally Available
2020/08/24: New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer - ThreatAlert® ATO Acceleration
2020/07/10: Track file changes on Systems Manager managed instances with AWS Config
2020/07/09: AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules
2020/07/09: AWS Systems Manager Opscenter is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
2020/07/07: AWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower
2020/07/01: AWS Config multi-account, multi-region data aggregation and advanced query capabilities now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
2020/06/24: AWS Config integrates with the AWS CloudFormation Registry
2020/06/12: Simplify cloud resource management with AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow
2020/06/03: AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types
2020/06/03: AWS Config adds conformance pack for NIST CSF operational best practices
2020/06/03: AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules
2020/05/27: Now deploy AWS Config rules and conformance packs across an organization from a delegated member account
2020/05/20: New Digital Course on AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance Now Available
2020/04/28: AWS Service Catalog adds three new Getting Started portfolios