AWS Config
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Apr 16, 2021
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AWS Config
MonitoringWhat is AWS Config?
AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. With AWS Config you can discover existing AWS resources, export a complete inventory of your AWS resources with all configuration details, and determine how a resource was configured at any point in time. These capabilities enable compliance auditing, security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting.
AWS Config is a tool in the Monitoring category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Configuration VisibilityFully ManagedEasy to get startedLow costEcosystem of Partner solutions
AWS Config Pros & Cons
Pros of AWS Config
- ✓Backed by Amazon
- ✓One stop solution
Cons of AWS Config
- ✗Not user friendly
AWS Config Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to AWS Config?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Amazon CloudWatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. It retrieve your monitoring data, view graphs to help take automated action based on the state of your cloud environment.
