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 the security standards. Config also supports the auto-remediation of problems whenever they are detected.

Getting ready

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 the purpose of testing, we need to have at least one IAM user without MFC enabled.

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