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Introduction to AWS Config

Introduction to AWS Config - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Introduction to AWS Config

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- [Instructor] When you run your applications on AWS, you use AWS resources, which you must create and manage collectively. As the demand for your application keeps growing, so does the need to keep track of your AWS resources. AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with an inventory of your AWS resources, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. Notifications are provided via Amazon's simple notification service. With AWS Config, you can discover existing AWS resources, export a complete inventory of your AWS resources, with all configuration details, determine how a resource was configured at any point in time, get notified when resources are created, modified, or deleted, view relationships between resources. For example, how many EC2 instances use a specific security group. This enables compliance auditing, security analysis, resource change…

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