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Tag: AWS Config
Enhance Evidence Collection with AWS Config and Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager is a fully-managed service that provides prebuilt frameworks for common industry standards and regulations, and that automates the continual collection of evidence to help you prepare for an audit. The continuous and automated gathering of evidence related to your AWS resource usage helps simplify risk assessment and compliance with regulations and industry […]
Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake integration with AWS Config
Organizations managing cloud infrastructure in AWS need effective mechanisms to audit operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance. Early this year we announced the availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake a managed data lake that lets organizations aggregate, immutably store, and query events recorded by CloudTrail for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. CloudTrail […]
Announcing evidence finder for AWS Audit Manager
Today, we’re excited to announce a new search feature that allows customers to perform targeted searches by multiple criteria, group the results and send the data to an assessment report. Customers can more easily find the evidence they need and, organize it without the need to add it to a report. Customers can then generate their […]
AWS Cloud Operations Kiosks at AWS re:Invent 2022
The Expo on Day 3 of AWS on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. For most organizations, the question isn’t “if we move to the cloud” anymore; it’s “what do we move first?” and “how soon can we be operating in the cloud?” Wherever you are in your digital […]
Build Cloud Operations Skills Using the New Getting Started with AWS Config Training
Are you responsible for your company’s compliance? Do you want to make sure that your AWS resources are aligned to your company’s desired configurations? And make sure how to automate the remediations of noncompliant resources? Do you see an opportunity for your organization to automate its continuous compliance at scale? If you need to understand […]
Cost Optimization recommendations for AWS Config
In this post, we’ll walk you through the various best practices and recommendations for optimizing AWS Config costs. This also provides technical guidance for looking at the rules and the recorder, how to start deleting or removing rules that aren’t needed, and then editing the Settings of Config, specifically the “Resource types to record”, to […]
How to use AWS Config and CloudTrail to find who made changes to a resource
AWS Config is a service that continuously tracks and evaluates the configuration changes of your AWS resources. It provides you with a Resource Timeline which helps you to investigate and audit how the resources and their relationships change over time. AWS Config records the configuration of supported resources in a JSON structure known as a […]
How to get a daily report for your resources configuration changes
AWS allows customers to build, experience, and innovate in their AWS accounts, resulting in dynamic environments. You can manage your resources changes using different controls, such as: Preventive controls with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies Detective controls with AWS Config Rules Preventive and Detective controls with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines […]
Prepare for an Audit in AWS Part 2 – General Best Practices
In Part 1 of this blog series, I discussed how you can use purpose-built services, such as AWS Audit Manager, AWS Config, and AWS Artifact, to help with almost any audit that you may be preparing for, with features geared specifically to what is required by an audit. But the story shouldn’t start there. Instead, […]
Prepare for an Audit in AWS Part 1 – AWS Audit Manager, AWS Config, and AWS Artifact
AWS customers represent a range of different verticals, locations, and sizes. Given today’s digital, global economy, customers have various governance needs based upon their geographies. Regardless of the regulations or standards, AWS provides services and resources that help our customers prepare to meet those requirements. In this post, I demonstrate how you can use AWS […]