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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

by Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
690 pages
16h
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting started with AWS Config

Getting started with AWS Config is a very simple process, and it usually takes about a minute or two to complete. Overall, you start off by specifying the resources that you want AWS Config to record, configure an Amazon SNS topic, and Amazon S3 bucket for notifications and storing the configuration history, and, finally, add some config rules to evaluate your resources:

  1. To begin, access the AWS Config dashboard by filtering the service from the AWS Management Console or by navigating to https://console.aws.amazon.com/config/.
  2. Since this is our first time configuring this, select the Get Started option to commence the Config's creation process.
  3. In the Resource types to record section, select the type of AWS ...
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