From the course: AWS for DevOps: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging

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Use Config

Use Config

- [Instructor] The next service to look at is Config. So Config gives you an inventory of AWS resources and a history of configuration changes to these resources. You can use Config to define rules that evaluate these configurations for compliance. So, you might be getting a little confused here, because this is similar to Change Sets in CloudFormation. The difference is the word rules, and so Config is a higher level of management or monitoring on your service configurations, and that you have rules and you can see the results of whether or not your services are properly setup. Let's dive into this and look at an example. So you set this up and Amazon provides prebuilt rules that you can work with, and we'll use one of those. You can customize the rules, and the key aspect of this service is continuous compliance, so this is not for every environment. This is for enterprises typically that have stringent compliance requirements. So I'm going to just click on Get started, and I can…

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