Components of a Configuration Item
A configuration item consists of the following components.
Component | Description | Contains |
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Metadata | Information about this configuration item |
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Attributes | Resource attributes |
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Relationships | How the resource is related to other resources associated with the account | Description of the relationship, such as Amazon EBS volume
vol-1234567 is attached to an Amazon EC2 instance
i-a1b2c3d4 |
Current configuration | Information returned through a call to the Describe or List API of the resource | For example, DescribeVolumes API returns the following
information about the volume:
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Notes
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A configuration item relationship does not include network flow or data flow dependencies. Configuration items cannot be customized to represent your application architecture.
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As of Version 1.3, the relatedEvents field is empty. You can access the LookupEvents API in the AWS CloudTrail API Reference to retrieve the events for the resource.
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As of Version 1.3, the configurationItemMD5Hash field is empty. You can use the configurationStateId field to ensure you have the latest configuration item.