Enabling Config

To enable the Config service in your account, you have to first create the recorder and then the delivery group for that recorder. If you do the same thing on the AWS Console, both operations are combined. But if you do this via PowerShell, it sounds like it is a two-step process.

To get a list of all the cmdlets related to Config, you can use the following command:

PS C:\> Get-Command *-CFG*

You can have only one recorder running in a region, so you can check whether you have a recorder using the following command:

PS C:\> Get-CFGConfigurationRecorder

Write-CFGConfigurationRecorder lets you create a new configuration recorder to record the selected resource configurations. After recorder creation, you can make use of ...

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