New Training: Automate Cloud Resource Compliance with AWS Config

In this 7-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Trevor Sullivan uses AWS Config to apply resource configuration policies across one or more AWS accounts. Watch this new AWS training.

Watch the full course: AWS Cloud Automation

This training includes:

• 7 videos

• 48 minutes of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Introduction to Resource Compliance with the AWS Config Service

• Understanding Pricing for the AWS Config Service

• Setting up AWS Config in Your AWS Account

• Add an AWS Config Evaluation Rule to Determine Resource Compliance

• Automatically Remediate Non-compliant Resources with AWS Systems Manager

• Configure Simple Notification Service (SNS) Integration with AWS Config

• Review and Call to Action: AWS Config

What is AWS Config and Why Use It?

AWS environments, often composed of many different business-critical applications and services spanning different geo-locations around the world, can quickly become very large and resource-intensive. To meet and maintain healthy business practices and assess resource management in the cloud, organizations require centralized services to monitor and manage resource usage across a cloud-native environment. AWS Config fulfills that challenge by providing an AWS cloud-native service designed to assess, audit, and evaluate the configuration of various AWS cloud resources.

AWS Config provides a real-time monitoring solution designed to provide organizations with continuous monitoring and reporting capabilities of their AWS environment. This critical resource monitoring tool helps organizations ensure they are not over-provisioning or over-consuming resources that could otherwise be inducing high costs or unnecessary consumption.

Furthermore, for organizations who are required to meet compliance requirements, AWS Config provides insight into where resources are being consumed so that organizations can be sure data management and transfer practices are meeting their unique compliance requirements.

As organizations scale, AWS Config can act as a central critical resource to help organizations monitor resource consumption and maintain healthy data management practices and optimize their growing environment for the future.