AWS Config Resource Compliance Dashboard
Authors
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Luca Casarini, Senior Technical Account Manager, AWS
Contributors
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Iakov Gan, Senior Solution Architect, AWS
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Introduction
AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications for security and governance.
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Config Resource Compliance Dashboard (CRCD) shows the inventory of your AWS resources, along with their compliance status, across multiple AWS accounts and regions by leveraging your AWS Config data.
Advantages
A simplified Configuration Management Database (CMDB) experience in AWS
Avoid investment in a dedicated external CMDB system or third-party tools. Access the inventory of resources in a single pane of glass, without accessing the AWS Management Console on each account and region. Filter resources by account, region, and fields that are specific to the resource such as IP address. If you tag consistently your resources, for example to map them to the application, owning team and environment, specify those tags to the dashboard and they will be displayed alongside other resource-specific information, and used for filtering your configuration items. Manage and plan the upgrade of Amazon RDS DB engines and AWS Lambda runtimes.
Compliance tracking
Track compliance of your AWS Config rules and conformance packs per service, region, account, resource. Identify resources that require compliance remediation and establish a process for continuous compliance review. Verify that your tagging strategy is consistently applied across accounts and regions.
Democratize security and compliance visibility
The AWS Config Dashboard helps security teams establish a compliance practice and offers visibility over security compliance to field teams, without them accessing AWS Config service or dedicated security tooling accounts.
Dashboard features
AWS Config compliance
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At-a-glance status of compliant and non-compliant resources and AWS Config rules.
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Month-by-month compliance trend for resources and AWS Config rules.
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Compliance breakdown by service, account, and region.
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Compliance tracking for AWS Config rules and conformance packs.
Inventory management
Inventory of Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and AWS Lambda resources with filtering on account, region and resource-specific fields (e.g. IP addresses for EC2). Furthermore, the dashboard supports filtering of these resources by the custom tags that you use to categorize workloads, such as Application, Owner and Environment. The name of the tags will be provided by you during installation.
AWS Config Aggregator Dashboard
Graphs from the AWS Config Aggregator Dashboard are added here, so that you can share it without managing read-only access to the AWS Config console.
Tag compliance
Visualize the results of AWS Config Managed Rule
required-tags.
You can deploy this rule to find resources in your accounts that were
not launched with your desired tag configurations by specifying which
resource types should have tags and the expected value for each tag. The
rule can be deployed multiple times in AWS Config. To display data on
the dashboard, the rules must have a name that starts with
required-tags (this is case-sensitive).
Configuration Item events
The AWS Config Dashboards shows the timeline of your configuration changes. Find which resources were recently created, updated or deleted and see which accounts and regions are delivering AWS Config data. Visualize the latest data imported into the dashboard and confirm that you are receiving data from all accounts and regions.
Steps
There are two possible ways to deploy the AWS Config dashboard on AWS Organizations. Read the Perequisites page to understand which deployment setup is better for you. If you install the dashboard on a standalone account that is not part of an AWS Organization, follow the installation instructions in the Log Archive account.
Note
These dashboards and their content: (a) are for informational purposes only, (b) represent current AWS product offerings and practices, which are subject to change without notice, and (c) does not create any commitments or assurances from AWS and its affiliates, suppliers or licensors. AWS content, products or services are provided "as is" without warranties, representations, or conditions of any kind, whether express or implied. The responsibilities and liabilities of AWS to its customers are controlled by AWS agreements, and this document is not part of, nor does it modify, any agreement between AWS and its customers.
Update instructions
If you already have installed the AWS Config Dasboard, you can check our
GitHub
repository upgrade page
