Setting up and using AWS Config

In this recipe, we will learn how to set up and use AWS Config. We can use Config to record and evaluate configurations of our AWS resources. We can create rules that define security standards and find out about resources that do not comply with security standards. Config also supports the auto-remediation of problems whenever they are detected.

Getting ready

We need the following to successfully complete this recipe:

• A working AWS account and a user as described in the Technical requirements section.
• If you want to add an SNS topic for notifications, you can create an SNS topic with an email subscription by following the Creating an SNS topic to send emails recipe of this chapter.
• For testing, we need at least one IAM user without multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled.

How to do it...

First, we will set up AWS Config for the first time, and then we will see how to use AWS Config. Let us get started:

1. When we...