Document History
The following table describes the important changes to the documentation for AWS Config. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
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API version: 2014-11-12
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Latest documentation update: December 19, 2024
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AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Cognito, AWS Elemental MediaConnect, and Amazon OpenSearch Service. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | December 19, 2024 |
Security IAM update | The | December 18, 2024 |
AWS Config supports service-linked configuration recorders | With this release, AWS Config supports service-linked configuration recorders. You enable a service-linked configuration recorder in the supported service or using the AWS CLI, and the recorder records the resource types needed for the linked service on your behalf. You can view details of a service-linked configuration recorder using the AWS Config console or AWS CLI. For more information, see Working with the configuration recorder. | November 27, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | November 12, 2024 |
Security IAM update | The | November 8, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rule: cognito-user-pool-advanced-security-enabled | November 6, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | October 21, 2024 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: | September 23, 2024 |
Security IAM update | The | September 16, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | September 3, 2024 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: | August 27, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | July 22, 2024 |
Security IAM update | The | June 17, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | May 8, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rule: iam-external-access-analyzer-enabled | May 2, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | April 26, 2024 |
AWS Config simplifies usage analysis with Amazon CloudWatch | With this release, the Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring AWS Config data usage will display only billable usage. This means, non-billable usage will no longer be displayed in both the Amazon CloudWatch metrics emitted to AWS Config and the AWS Config console. This allows you to validate AWS Config setup and usage using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and correlate billable usage with associated costs. For more information, see AWS Config Usage and Success Metrics. | April 26, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rule: iam-server-certificate-expiration-check | April 23, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | April 17, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | April 16, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rule: efs-mount-target-public-accessible | March 20, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | February 26, 2024 |
Security IAM update | The | February 22, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rule: s3-bucket-cross-region-replication-enabled | February 12, 2024 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new AWS AppConfig, Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon MemoryDB (MemoryDB), Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Redshift, and AWS Transfer Family resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | February 6, 2024 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rule: macie-auto-sensitive-data-discovery-check | January 29, 2024 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon AppStream, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Cognito, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), EC2 Image Builder, AWS Ground Station, AWS Mainframe Modernization, Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Redshift, and AWS Systems Manager resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | January 3, 2024 |
Service limits increase for the maximum number of AWS Config Rules per Region per account | With this release, AWS Config supports 1000 AWS Config rules per AWS Region per account. This increase applies to the total of all deployed rules including AWS Config managed rules, AWS Config custom rules, AWS Config conformance packs, AWS Security Hub controls, AWS Firewall Manager policies, and AWS Backup backup plans per Region per account. For more information, see Service Limits. | December 19, 2023 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | December 19, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | December 5, 2023 |
Preview release: Natural language query processor for advanced queries | With this release, you can use the natural language query processor for advanced queries, which uses generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) capabilities that allow you to ask questions in plain English and convert them into a ready-to-use query format. With the natural language query processor, you can query your AWS account or across an AWS organization. For more information, see Natural language query processor for advanced queries. | November 26, 2023 |
Periodic recording | With this release, AWS Config supports periodic recording. Periodic recording provides you with the ability to capture the latest configuration changes for your resources over a fixed period of time. You can now set the default frequency for the configuration recorder to Daily, allowing you to receive a configuration item (CI) representing the most recent state of your resources over the last 24-hour period, only if it’s different from the previous CI recorded. The AWS Config console also introduces a new recording strategy experience, where you can also override the recording frequency for specific resource types or exclude specific resource types from recording. This can help make your settings fit your granular requirements. The following data types are added: The following data types are updated: The following pages in the developer guide are updated: | November 26, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The The For more information, see AWS managed policies for AWS Config. | November 17, 2023 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | November 9, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Network Manager, AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA), AWS App Mesh, Amazon Connect, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS IoT, AWS IoT TwinMaker, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect (Amazon MSK Connect), AWS Lambda, and AWS Resource Explorer resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | November 3, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config updates the following conformance pack: Operational Best Practices for BNM RMiT | October 26, 2023 |
Compliance and Inventory Dashboards for Aggregators | With this release, AWS Config adds a compliance dashboard page and an inventory dashboard page to the aggregated view in the AWS Config console. For the compliance dashboard page, you can view automated dashboards with widgets that summarize insights on resource compliance within your aggregator, such as Top 10 resource types by noncompliant resources, Top 10 account level conformance packs by noncompliant rules, and more. For the inventory dashboard page, you can view automated dashboard with widgets that summarize insights on resource configuration data within your aggregator, such as Top 10 resource types by resource count, Top 10 accounts by resource count, and more. For information on the graph and charts, see Compliance dashboard and Inventory dashboard. | October 23, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | October 4, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new AWS IoT, AWS IoT TwinMaker, AWS IoT Wireless, Amazon Personalize Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon SageMaker AI, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon AppStream, and Amazon Inspector resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | October 4, 2023 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | September 21, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config updates the following conformance packs: | September 8, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | September 6, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon CodeGuru Profiler, AWS Elemental MediaConnect, AWS Transfer Family, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, AWS Batch, AWS Cloud Map, and Amazon Route 53 Resolver resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | September 6, 2023 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | August 10, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new AWS Amplify, Amazon AppIntegrations, AWS App Mesh, Amazon Athena, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, Amazon Forecast, AWS IoT Greengrass Version 2, AWS Ground Station, AWS Elemental MediaConvert, AWS Elemental MediaTailor, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Personalize, Amazon Pinpoint, and AWS Resilience Hub resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | August 3, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | July 28, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon Kendra, Amazon Connect, AWS CloudFormation, AWS AppConfig, AWS App Mesh, AWS App Runner, and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | July 10, 2023 |
Service limits increase for organization conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports 350 AWS Config rules per region per account across all conformance packs and 350 organizational AWS Config rules per organization. For more information, see Service Limits. | June 13, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | June 13, 2023 |
AWS Config Recording Exclusions by Resource Type | With this release, AWS Config allows you to exclude specific types of AWS resources from inventory tracking and compliance monitoring while still tracking all other supported resource types currently available in AWS Config, including those that will be added in the future. You can use this feature to concentrate on critical resources that are subject to your compliance and governance standards. The updates to the API for the configuration recorder and recording group are backward compatible, meaning that they work with previous versions of the PutConfigurationRecorder API. You can continue to manage which resource types are recorded in the exact same way as before without using the updated or new APIs. The following data types are added: The following data types are updated: The following page in the developer guide is updated: | June 9, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) (Amazon Keyspaces), AWS Signer, AWS Amplify, AWS App Mesh, AWS App Runner, Amazon AppStream 2.0, AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, Amazon Forecast, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon SageMaker AI, AWS Transfer Family, Amazon Data Firehose resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | June 5, 2023 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | May 10, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Route 53 Resolver, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS IoT Wireless, AWS Network Manager, AWS Device Farm, AWS Ground Station, Amazon AppFlow, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Pinpoint, AWS IoT, AWS AppConfig, EC2 Image Builder, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Panorama, Amazon SageMaker Runtime, Amazon ECR, and AWS Audit Manager resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | May 5, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to | May 1, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | April 13, 2023 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | April 10, 2023 |
Service limits increase for organization conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports 350 AWS Config rules per account across all organization conformance packs. For more information, see Service Limits. | April 3, 2023 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | April 3, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon AppStream 2.0, AWS Auto Scaling, Amazon Connect Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon EventBridge, HealthLake, Kinesis video stream, AWS IoT TwinMaker, Lookout for Vision, Network Manager, Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC), and AWS RoboMaker resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | April 3, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | March 30, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | March 3, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new AWS Elemental MediaPackage, Amazon EventBridge, AWS IoT, (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Lookout for Metrics, Amazon Lex, AWS Budgets, AWS Device Farm, Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, and AWS RoboMaker resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | March 2, 2023 |
Security IAM update | AWS Config now tracks changes to the | February 27, 2023 |
AWS Config Resource Coverage by Region Availability | With this release, AWS Config provides Region information for each supported resource type. For information on which resource types are supported in which Regions, see Resource Coverage by Region Availability. | February 20, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), AWS Glue, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS IoT, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Managed Service for Apache Flink resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | February 7, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | February 1, 2023 |
Security IAM update | As a security best practice, the | January 12, 2023 |
Security IAM update | The | January 10, 2023 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon MQ, AWS AppConfig, AWS Cloud9, Amazon EventBridge schemas, Amazon Fraud Detector, AWS IoT, AWS IoT Analytics, Amazon Lightsail, AWS Elemental MediaPackage (MediaPackage), Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC), AWS Resilience Hub, and AWS Transfer Family resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | January 5, 2023 |
AWS Config rule resource coverage | With this release, AWS Config displays the resource type coverage for an increased number of AWS Config managed rules. | December 21, 2022 |
AWS Config rule discoverability | With this release, AWS Config supports pages for List of AWS Config Managed Rules by Evaluation Mode, List of AWS Config Managed Rules by Trigger Type, and List of AWS Config Managed Rules by Region Availability. | December 21, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config updates the following conformance packs: | December 19, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | December 9, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon CloudWatch RUM, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), AWS Backup, AWS DataSync, and AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | December 9, 2022 |
AWS Config Proactive Compliance | With this release, AWS Config supports the ability to proactively check for compliance with AWS Config rules before resource provisioning. This allows you to evaluate the configuration settings of your resources before they are created or updated. Use AWS Config to track the configuration changes made to your resources, either pre-provisioning or post-provisioning, and check if your resources match your desired configurations. The following data types are added: The following data types are updated: The following pages in the developer guide are updated: | November 28, 2022 |
Drift Detection as Configuration Item (CI) for the AWS Config Configuration Recorder | With this release, AWS Config tracks all changes to the configuration
recorder to indicate if the state of the configuration recorder differs, or has
drifted, from its previous state; for example, if there
are updates to resource types that you have enabled AWS Config to track, if you have
stopped or started the configuration recorder, or if you have deleted or
uninstalled the configuration recorder. The
| November 18, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new AWS IoT Events, AWS Cloud Map, EC2 Image Builder, AWS DataSync, AWS Glue, Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC), and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | November 8, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | November 7, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: The following conformance packs are updated: | October 27, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | October 19, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), AWS AppConfig, AWS Cloud Map, and AWS DataSync resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | October 6, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon SageMaker AI, AWS AppSync, AWS Cloud Map, and AWS DataSync resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | October 4, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance pack | With this release, AWS Config updates the Operational Best Practices for SWIFT CSP conformance pack. | October 4, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: The following conformance packs are updated: | September 30, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | September 14, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance pack | With this release, AWS Config supports the Operational Best Practices for SWIFT CSP conformance pack. | September 9, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | September 7, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: The following conformance packs are updated: | August 31, 2022 |
Getting Started with AWS Config and Custom Conformance Pack updates | With this release, AWS Config updates the Getting Started with AWS Config and Setting Up AWS Config with the Console pages, introducing a 1-click setup and Manual setup page. AWS Config also updates the Custom Conformance Pack page with a walkthrough on how to create a conformance pack YAML file from scratch. | August 25, 2022 |
AWS Systems Manager Document (SSM document) Integration with Conformance Packs | With this release, you can create a conformance pack template with an SSM document. For more information on SSM documents, see AWS Systems Manager Documents in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide. The following data types are updated: The following pages in the developer guide are updated: | August 24, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | August 22, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Athena, Amazon Detective, Amazon SageMaker AI, Amazon Route 53, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), AWS Glue, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | August 16, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config updates the following conformance packs: | August 1, 2022 |
Compliance score for conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config introduces compliance score for conformance packs, which provides you with a high-level view of the compliance state of your conformance packs. You can use it to identify, investigate, and understand the level of compliance in your conformance packs. A compliance score is the percentage of the number of compliant rule-resource combinations in a conformance pack compared to the number of total possible rule-resource combinations in the conformance pack. The following data types are updated: The following pages in the developer guide are updated: | July 26, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | July 25, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | July 15, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | July 8, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources type | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new AWS Global Accelerator resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | July 5, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | July 1, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: The following conformance packs are updated: | June 30, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon SageMaker AI resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | June 29, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Route 53, Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS Batch, AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer (IAM Access Analyzer), AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), AWS Step Functions, and Elastic Load Balancing resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | June 14, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | June 13, 2022 |
AWS Config Integration with AWS Security Hub | With this release, you can see the results of AWS Config managed and custom rule evaluations as findings in AWS Security Hub. Security Hub transforms rule evaluations into findings, which provide more information about the impacted resources, such as the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and creation date. These findings can be viewed alongside other Security Hub findings, providing a comprehensive overview of your security posture. For more information, see Sending Rule Evaluations to Security Hub | June 7, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | May 31, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: | May 31, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon SageMaker AI and AWS Step Functions resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | May 26, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance pack | With this release, AWS Config updates the Operational Best Practices for NERC CIP BCSI conformance pack. | May 20, 2022 |
Components of an AWS Config Rule | With this release, AWS Config introduces a Components of an AWS Config Rule page. The page discusses the structure of rule definitions, rule metadata, and best practices on how to write rules with Python using the AWS Config Rules Development Kit (RDK) and AWS Config Rules Development Kit Library (RDKlib). | May 9, 2022 |
Service limits increase for organization conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports 180 AWS Config rules per account across all organization conformance packs. For more information, see Service Limits. | May 6, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: | April 29, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rule | With this release, AWS Config supports the s3-resources-protected-by-backup-plan managed rule. | April 11, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | April 7, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | April 4, 2022 |
AWS Config Custom Policy rules | With this release, AWS Config allows you to create AWS Config Custom Policy rules using
AWS CloudFormation Guard (guard The following pages in the developer guide are updated: The following data types are updated: | April 4, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources type | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the new Amazon EMR SecurityConfiguration resource type. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | March 31, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rule | With this release, AWS Config supports the virtualmachine-resources-protected-by-backup-plan managed rule. | March 29, 2022 |
AWS Config Integration with Amazon CloudWatch Metrics | With this release, AWS Config now supports tracking of your AWS Config usage and success metrics with Amazon CloudWatch in the AWS Config Dashboard page. CloudWatch metrics is a monitoring service which provides data about the performance of your systems, including the ability to search, graph, and build alarms on metrics about AWS resources. From the AWS Config Dashboard, you can see what traffic is driving your AWS Config usage and key metrics for failures that have occured in your workflow. The following page is updated: | March 29, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources type | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon GuardDuty Detector resource type. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | March 24, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | March 23, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config updates the following conformance packs:
| March 16, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | March 14, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config updates the following managed rules: | March 10, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | March 4, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | February 28, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | February 25, 2022 |
Logging and Monitoring in AWS Config Update | With this release, AWS Config updates the Monitoring AWS Config with Amazon EventBridge Events page to replace references to Amazon CloudWatch Events. Amazon EventBridge is the preferred way to manage your events. CloudWatch Events and EventBridge are the same underlying service and API, but EventBridge provides more features. Changes you make in either CloudWatch or EventBridge will appear in each console. For more informance, see Amazon EventBridge. | February 24, 2022 |
AWS SDK Page for AWS Config | With this release, AWS Config introduces a Using AWS Config with an AWS SDK page. AWS software development kits (SDKs) are available for many popular programming languages. Each SDK provides an API, code examples, and documentation that make it easier for developers to build applications in their preferred language. | February 24, 2022 |
Security IAM Role Trust policy update | With this release, AWS Config updates the IAM trust policy statement to include
security protections in the trust policy that restrict access with
The following page is updated: | February 18, 2022 |
Changes to Global Resource Type Recording | AWS Config now changes how new global resource types are recorded in AWS Config Recording. Global resource types are AWS resources that do not require you to specify a region at creation. Before this change, you could enable the recording of global resource types in all supported regions in AWS Config. After this change, new global resource types onboarded to AWS Config recording can only be recorded in the service's home region for the commercial partition, and AWS GovCloud (US-West) for the AWS GovCloud (US) partition. You will now be able to view the configuration items for these new global resource types only in their home region and AWS GovCloud (US-West). For a list of home regions for global resource types onboarded after February 2022, see the table on the Recording All Supported Resource Types page. | February 18, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | February 10, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | February 10, 2022 |
Security IAM update | The | February 2, 2022 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | January 31, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to AWS CodeDeploy resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | January 5, 2022 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon SageMaker AI resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | December 20, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: | December 20, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: The following conformance pack is updated: | November 18, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: The following conformance packs are updated: | October 29, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon OpenSearch Service resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | October 12, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config updates the following conformance pack: | October 12, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config updates the following conformance packs: | September 30, 2021 |
Security IAM update | The | September 8, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | September 7, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config updates the following conformance packs:
| August 30, 2021 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | August 20, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance pack: | August 20, 2021 |
Security Amazon SNS policy update | With this release, AWS Config updates the IAM policy statement for the Amazon SNS topic
when using service-linked roles to include security protections that restrict
access with The following page is updated: | August 17, 2021 |
Security AWS Lambda policy update | With this release, AWS Config updates the AWS Lambda resource-based policy for AWS Config
custom rules to include security protections that restrict access with
The following pages are updated: | August 12, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to Amazon Kinesis resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | August 6, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance pack: The following conformance packs are updated:
| July 30, 2021 |
Example AWS Lambda Functions for AWS Config Custom Rules | With this release, AWS Config provides Python example functions in Example AWS Lambda Functions for AWS Config Rules (Python). | July 29, 2021 |
Security IAM update | The | July 28, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to AWS Backup resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | July 14, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config supports the following conformance packs: | July 9, 2021 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | June 25, 2021 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | June 10, 2021 |
Security IAM update | The | June 8, 2021 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | May 19, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to Amazon Elastic File System resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | May 13, 2021 |
Security IAM update | The | May 10, 2021 |
AWS Config Custom Rules | The following pages in the developer guide are updated: | April 30, 2021 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | April 15, 2021 |
Security IAM update | The | April 14, 2021 |
Conformance Pack Compliance as Configuration Items (CIs) | With this release, AWS Config supports conformance pack compliance as configuration items. This enables you to:
The following data types are updated: The following pages in the developer guide are updated: | March 30, 2021 |
Pagination update | With this release, AWS Config advanced queries feature now supports pagination for queries that contain aggregate functions, such as COUNT and SUM. You can now use advanced queries to get complete results for your aggregate queries through pagination, which were previously limited to 500 rows. For more information, see Querying the Current Configuration State of AWS Resources | March 26, 2021 |
Region support | With this release, AWS Config and AWS Config Rules is now supported in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. | March 4, 2021 |
AWS Config supports new resources types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Amazon Elastic Container Service, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types. | February 25, 2021 |
KMS encryption support | With this release, AWS Config allows you to use KMS-based encryption on objects delivered by AWS Config for S3 bucket delivery. The following data types are updated: The following pages in the developer guide are updated: | February 16, 2021 |
AWS Config updates managed rules | With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: | February 16, 2021 |
Saved Query Region support | With this release, saved query is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. | February 15, 2021 |
Multi-account multi-region data aggregation Region support | With this release, multi-account multi-region data aggregation is now supported in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. For more information, see Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation. | February 15, 2021 |
Advanced queries Region support | With this release, advanced queries is now supported in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. For more information, see Querying the Current Configuration State of AWS Resources. | February 15, 2021 |
AWS Config documentation history notification available through RSS feed | You can now receive notification about updates to the AWS Config documentation by subscribing to an RSS feed. | January 1, 2021 |
Earlier Updates
The following table describes the documentation release history of AWS Config prior to Dec 31, 2020.
Change | Description | Release Date |
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Saved Query support | With this release, AWS Config allows you to save your queries. After you save the query, you can search it, copy it to the query editor, edit it, or delete it. For more information about how to save a query, see the Query Using the SQL Query Editor for AWS Config (Console) and Query Using the SQL Query Editor for AWS Config (AWS CLI). For more information about APIs, see the AWS Config API Reference: Also see Service Limits for AWS Config. |
December 21, 2020 |
Process checks support | With this release, AWS Config supports process checks that is a type of AWS Config rule that allows you to track your external and internal tasks that require verification as part of the conformance packs. With process checks, you can list the compliance of requirements and actions at a single location. For more information about process checks, see the AWS Config Process Checks Within a Conformance Pack for AWS Config topic and the PutExternalEvaluation API. |
December 17, 2020 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: |
December 17, 2020 |
AWS Config supports AWS Network Firewall |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your AWS Network Firewall FirewallPolicy, RuleGroup, and Firewall resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
December 4, 2020 |
Documentation update |
AWS Config added support for organization-wide resource data aggregation in a delegated administrator account. You can now use a delegated administrator account to aggregate resource configuration and compliance data from all member accounts of an organization in AWS Organizations. For more information, see PutConfigurationAggregator, Creating Aggregators for AWS Config and Registering a Delegated Administrator for AWS Config. |
December 4, 2020 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | October 30, 2020 | |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs |
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October 22, 2020 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | October 15, 2020 | |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs |
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October 8, 2020 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs |
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October 26, 2020 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs | September 28, 2020 | |
Documentation update | The following conformance pack topics are updated. |
September 28, 2020 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: |
September 17, 2020 |
AWS Config supports AWS WAFv2 |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your AWS WAFv2 WebACL, IPSet, RegexPatternSet, RuleGroup, and ManagedRuleSet resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
September 1, 2020 |
Documentation update |
A note has been added to Full access to AWS Config about creating custom permissions that grant full access. The documentation has been updated for the following rules: |
August 24, 2020 |
Documentation update |
Operational Best Practices for PCI DSS 3.2.1 and Operational Best Practices for NIST CSF templates are updated. |
August 14, 2020 |
Documentation update | Example relationship queries are added. For more information, see Example Relationship Queries for AWS Config. |
July 30, 2020 |
Documentation update | The following data types are updated: |
July 23, 2020 |
AWS Config supports AWS Systems Manager resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the AWS Systems Manager file data resource type. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
July 9, 2020 |
Documentation update |
Operational Best Practices for AWS Identity And Access Management and Operational Best Practices for PCI DSS 3.2.1 templates are updated. |
July 9, 2020 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
July 9, 2020 |
Multi-account multi-region data aggregation Region support | With this release, multi-account multi-region data aggregation is now supported in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. For more information, see Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation and Troubleshooting for Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation for AWS Config. |
July 1, 2020 |
Advanced queries Region support | With this release, advanced queries is now supported in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. For more information, see Querying the Current Configuration State of AWS Resources with AWS Config. |
July 1, 2020 |
Documentation update |
The documentation has been updated for the following rules: |
June 30, 2020 |
Documentation update |
The documentation has been updated with information about security for AWS Config. See Security in AWS Config. |
June 24, 2020 |
Documentation update |
AWS Control Tower Detective Guardrails Conformance Pack template is updated. For more information, see AWS Control Tower Detective Guardrails Conformance Pack. |
June 4, 2020 |
AWS Config supports a new conformance pack |
With this release, AWS Config supports Operational Best Practices for NIST CSF conformance pack. For more information, see Operational Best Practices for NIST CSF . |
May 29, 2020 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
May 28, 2020 |
Delegated administrator support | With this release, you can deploy AWS Config rules and conformance packs from any delegated member account in your organization, in addition to the management account. For more information about APIs, see the AWS Config API Reference: For more information, see Service Limits for AWS Config. |
May 27, 2020 |
AWS Config rules Region support | With this release, few AWS Config rules are supported in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) regions. For a detailed list of rules and the regions they are supported in, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
April 28, 2020 |
AWS Config supports new conformance packs |
With this release, AWS Config supports two conformance packs.
For more information, see Conformance Pack Sample Templates for AWS Config. |
April 22, 2020 |
AWS Config supports AWS Secrets Manager |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Secrets Manager secret. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
April 20, 2020 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
April 16, 2020 |
Conformance pack Region support | With this release, conformance packs are now supported in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain). For more information, see Conformance Packs. |
April 8, 2020 |
Documentation update |
AWS Config limits are available in this developer guide. For more information, see Service Limits for AWS Config. |
April 8, 2020 |
Documentation update |
Third-party resources that are managed (that is, created/updated/deleted) through AWS CloudFormation registry are automatically tracked in AWS Config as configuration items. For more information, see Recording Configurations with AWS Config for Third-Party Resources using the AWS CLI. |
March 30, 2020 |
Documentation update |
The AWS Config Managed Rules are updated to include AWS Region information. For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
March 27, 2020 |
AWS Config supports Amazon SNS resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Amazon SNS topic. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
March 6, 2020 |
Multi-account multi-region data aggregation Region support | With this release, multi-account multi-region data aggregation is now supported in Europe (Stockholm) Region. For more information, see Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation. |
March 5, 2020 |
Advanced queries Region support | With this release, advanced queries is now supported in Europe (Stockholm) Region. For more information, see Querying the Current Configuration State of AWS Resources with AWS Config. |
March 5, 2020 |
AWS Config allows you to run advanced queries with configuration aggregators | With this release, AWS Config adds support to run advanced queries based on resource configuration properties with configuration aggregators, enabling you to run the same queries across multiple accounts and Regions. For more information, see Querying the Current Configuration State of AWS Resources with AWS Config. With this release, AWS Config adds
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February 28, 2020 |
AWS Config supports Amazon SQS resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Amazon SQS queue. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
February 13, 2020 |
AWS CloudFormation support for Conformance packs | With this release, AWS CloudFormation support for the following
resources was added:
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February 13, 2020 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
December 20, 2019 |
Record configurations for custom resource types | With this release, AWS Config introduces support to record configurations for custom resource types. You can publish the configuration data of third-party resources into AWS Config and view and monitor the resource inventory and configuration history using AWS Config console and APIs. For more information, see Recording Configurations with AWS Config for Third-Party Resources using the AWS CLI. For more information about APIs, see the AWS Config API Reference: |
November 20, 2019 |
Conformance packs | With this release, AWS Config introduces conformance packs. Conformance packs enable you to package a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can then be deployed together as a single entity across an entire AWS Organization. For more information, see Conformance Packs. For more information about APIs, see the AWS Config API Reference: |
November 19, 2019 |
AWS Config supports Amazon OpenSearch Service and AWS Key Management Service resource types |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Amazon OpenSearch Service domain and AWS Key Management Service key. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
November 11, 2019 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
October 10, 2019 |
AWS Config supports Amazon RDS resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) DBCluster and DBClusterSnapshot. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
September 17, 2019 |
AWS Config supports Amazon QLDB resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) ledger resource type. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
September 10, 2019 |
AWS Config allows you to apply auto remediation on noncompliant resources as evaluated by AWS Config Rules | With this release, AWS Config introduces support to apply auto remediation using AWS Systems Manager automation documents on noncompliant resources as evaluated by AWS Config Rules. For more information, see Remediating Noncompliant Resources with AWS Config. With this release, AWS Config adds the following new APIs. For more information, see the AWS Config API Reference : |
September 5, 2019 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config supports the following managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
August 22, 2019 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config updates the following managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
July 31, 2019 |
AWS Config supports Amazon EC2 resource types |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the following Amazon EC2 resources; VPCEndpoint, VPCEndpointService, and VPCPeeringConnection. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
July 12, 2019 |
AWS Config allows you to manage AWS Config rules across all AWS accounts within an organization | With this release, AWS Config introduces support for managing AWS Config rules across all AWS accounts within an organization. You can centrally create, update, and delete AWS Config rules across all accounts in your organization. For more information, see Managing AWS Config Rules Across All Accounts in Your Organization. For more information about APIs, see the AWS Config API Reference: |
July 9, 2019 |
AWS Config supports Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 resource types |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the Amazon S3 AccountPublicAccessBlock resource and the following Amazon EC2 resources; NatGateway, EgressOnlyInternetGateway, and FlowLog. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
May 17, 2019 |
AWS Config updates managed rules |
With this release, AWS Config updates the following managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
May 7, 2019 |
AWS Config allows you to delete a remediation action using AWS Management Console. | With this release, AWS Config introduces support to delete a remediation action using AWS Management Console. For more information, see Remediating Noncompliant Resources with AWS Config. |
April 24, 2019 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports a new managed rule: fms-shield-resource-policy-check. For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
April 7, 2019 |
AWS Config supports Amazon API Gateway resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the following Amazon API Gateway resources; Api (WebSocket API), RestApi (REST API), Stage (WebSocket API stage), and Stage (REST API stage). For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
March 20, 2019 |
AWS Config allows you to run advanced queries | With this release, AWS Config adds support to run advanced queries based on resource configuration properties. For more information, see Querying the Current Configuration State of AWS Resources with AWS Config. With this release, AWS Config adds |
March 19, 2019 |
AWS Config allows you to assign tags your AWS Config resources | With this release, AWS Config introduces support for tag based access
control for three AWS Config resources— With this release, you can add, remove or list tags from your AWS Config resources using the following data types. For more information, see the AWS Config API Reference: |
March 14, 2019 |
AWS Config allows you to apply remediation on noncompliant resources as evaluated by AWS Config Rules | With this release, AWS Config introduces support to apply remediation using AWS Systems Manager automation documents on noncompliant resources as evaluated by AWS Config Rules. For more information, see Remediating Noncompliant Resources with AWS Config. With this release, AWS Config adds the following new APIs. For more information, see the AWS Config API Reference : |
March 12, 2019 |
AWS Config supports AWS Config Rules in China (Ningxia) Region |
This release only supports 54 AWS Config Rules in the China (Ningxia) Region. For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. However, AWS Config does not currently support the following rules in the China (Ningxia) Region:
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March 12, 2019 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports the following new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
January 21, 2019 |
AWS Config supports Service Catalog resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the following Service Catalog resources; CloudFromation product, provisioned product, and portfolio. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
January 11, 2019 |
Service-linked AWS Config rules support | With this release, AWS Config adds a new managed config rule that supports other AWS services to create AWS Config Rules in your account. For more information, see Service-Linked AWS Config Rules. |
November 20, 2018 |
AWS Config allows you to aggregate configuration data of AWS resources | With this release, AWS Config introduces support for aggregating the configuration data of AWS resources. For more information, see Viewing Compliance and Inventory Data in the Aggregator Dashboard for AWS Config. With this release, AWS Config adds the following new APIs. For more information, see the AWS Config API Reference : |
November 19, 2018 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports the following new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
November 19, 2018 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports the following new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
November 12, 2018 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports the following new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
October 24, 2018 |
Compliance history support | With this release, AWS Config now supports storing compliance history of resources as evaluated by AWS Config Rules. For more information, see Viewing Compliance History Timeline for Resources and Rules. |
October 18, 2018 |
Multi-account multi-region Data Aggregation Region support | With this release, multi-account multi-region Data Aggregation is now supported in six new Regions. For more information, see Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation. |
October 4, 2018 |
AWS Config supports resource-level permissions for AWS Config Rules APIs actions |
With this release, AWS Config supports resource-level permissions for certain AWS Config Rules API actions. For more information about the supported APIs, see Supported Resource-Level Permissions for AWS Config Rule API Actions. |
October 1, 2018 |
AWS Config supports CodePipeline resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the AWS CodePipeline resource type. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
September 12, 2018 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports the following new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
September 5, 2018 |
AWS Config supports AWS Systems Manager resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the AWS Systems Manager patch compliance and association compliance resource types. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
August 9, 2018 |
AWS Config allows you to delete your AWS Config data using AWS Management Console | With this release, AWS Config introduces support for retention period
using AWS Management Console. In the AWS Management Console, you can select a custom data
retention period for your |
August 7, 2018 |
AWS Config supports AWS Shield resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the AWS Shield Protection resource type. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
August 7, 2018 |
AWS Config supports AWS PrivateLink | With this release, AWS Config supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to route data between your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and AWS Config entirely within the AWS network. For more information, see Using AWS Config with Interface Amazon VPC Endpoints. |
July 31, 2018 |
AWS Config allows you to delete your AWS Config data | With this release, AWS Config introduces support for retention
period. AWS Config allows you to delete your data by specifying a
retention period for your With this release, AWS Config adds the following new APIs. For more information, see the AWS Config API Reference : |
May 25, 2018 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports the following two new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
May 10, 2018 |
AWS Config supports AWS X-Ray resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the AWS X-Ray EncryptionConfig resource type. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
May 1, 2018 |
AWS Config supports AWS Lambda resource type and one new managed rule |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the AWS Lambda function resource type. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. This release also supports the lambda-function-public-access-prohibited managed rule. For more information, see AWS Config Managed Rules. |
April 25, 2018 |
AWS Config supports AWS Elastic Beanstalk resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application, Application Version, and Environment resources. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
April 24, 2018 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports the following two new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
April 4, 2018 |
Multi-account multi-region data aggregation | With this release, AWS Config introduces multi-account multi-region data aggregation. This feature allows you to aggregate AWS Config data from multiple accounts or an organization and multiple regions into an aggregator account. For more information, see Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation. With this release, AWS Config adds the following new APIs. For more information, see the AWS Config API Reference : |
April 4, 2018 |
Monitoring AWS Config with Amazon CloudWatch Events |
With this release, use Amazon CloudWatch Events to detect and react to changes in the status of AWS Config events. For more information, see Monitoring AWS Config with Amazon EventBridge. |
March 29, 2018 |
New API operation | With this release, AWS Config adds support for BatchGetResourceConfig API, allowing you to batch-retrieve the current state of one or more of your resources. |
March 20, 2018 |
AWS Config supports AWS WAF RuleGroup resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the AWS WAF RuleGroup and AWS WAF RuleGroup Regional resources. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
February 15, 2018 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports the following new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
January 25, 2018 |
AWS Config supports Elastic Load Balancing resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Elastic Load Balancing classic load balancers. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
November 17, 2017 |
AWS Config supports the Amazon CloudFront and AWS WAF resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your CloudFront distribution and streaming distribution. With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the following AWS WAF and AWS WAF Regional resources; rate based rule, rule, and Web ACL. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
November 15, 2017 |
AWS Config supports the AWS CodeBuild resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your AWS CodeBuild projects. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
October 20, 2017 |
AWS Config supports Auto Scaling resources and one new managed rule |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the following Auto Scaling resources; groups, launch configuration, scheduled action, and scaling policy. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. This release also supports the following managed rule: For more information, see AWS Config Managed Rules. |
September 18, 2017 |
AWS Config supports the AWS CodeBuild resource type |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your AWS CodeBuild projects. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
October 20, 2017 |
AWS Config supports Auto Scaling resources and one new managed rule |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to the following Auto Scaling resources; groups, launch configuration, scheduled action, and scaling policy. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. This release also supports the following managed rule: For more information, see AWS Config Managed Rules. |
September 18, 2017 |
AWS Config supports the DynamoDB table resource type and one new managed rule | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your DynamoDB tables. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. This release supports the following managed rule: For more information, see AWS Config Managed Rules. |
September 8, 2017 |
AWS Config supports two new managed rules for Amazon S3 |
This release supports two new managed rules: For more information, see AWS Config Managed Rules. |
August 14, 2017 |
New page in the AWS Config console |
You can use the Dashboard in the AWS Config console to see the following:
For more information, see Viewing the AWS Config Dashboard. |
July 17, 2017 |
New API operation | You can use the GetDiscoveredResourceCounts operation to return the number of resource types, the number of each resource type, and the total number of resources that AWS Config is recording in a Region for your AWS account. |
July 17, 2017 |
AWS Config supports the AWS CloudFormation stack resource type and one new managed rule | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your AWS CloudFormation stacks. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. This release supports the following managed rule: For more information, see AWS Config Managed Rules. |
July 6, 2017 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for AWS Config Rules in the Canada (Central) Region and South America (São Paulo) Region. For all regions that support AWS Config and Config Rules, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference. |
July 5, 2017 |
New and updated content |
AWS Config Rules is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. For more information, see the AWS GovCloud (US) User Guide. For regions that support AWS Config, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference. |
June 8, 2017 |
AWS Config supports the Amazon CloudWatch alarm resource type and three new managed rules |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Amazon CloudWatch alarms. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. This release supports three new managed rules: For more information, see AWS Config Managed Rules. |
June 1, 2017 |
New and updated content |
This release supports specifying the application version number for the following managed rules: For more information, see AWS Config Managed Rules. |
June 1, 2017 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for AWS Config Rules in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. For more information, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference. |
April 27, 2017 |
New and updated content |
This release supports an updated console experience for adding AWS Config managed rules to your account for the first time. When you set up AWS Config Rules for the first time or in a new Region, you can search for AWS managed rules by name, description, or label. You can choose Select all to select all rules or choose Clear all to clear all rules. For more information, see Add, View, Update and Delete Rules (Console). |
April 5, 2017 |
AWS Config supports new managed rules |
This release supports the following new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
February 21, 2017 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for AWS Config Rules in the Europe (London) Region. For more information, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference. |
February 21, 2017 |
New and updated content |
This release adds AWS CloudFormation templates for AWS Config managed rules. You can use the templates to create managed rules for your account. For more information, see Creating AWS Config Managed Rules With AWS CloudFormation Templates. |
February 16, 2017 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for a new test mode for the
For more information, see PutEvaluations in the AWS Config API Reference. |
February 16, 2017 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for AWS Config Rules in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), and US West (N. California) Regions. For more information, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference. |
December 21, 2016 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for AWS Config in the Europe (London) Region. For more information, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference. |
December 13, 2016 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for AWS Config in the Canada (Central) Region. For more information, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference. |
December 8, 2016 |
AWS Config supports Amazon Redshift resource types and two new managed rules |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Amazon Redshift clusters, cluster parameter groups, cluster security groups, cluster snapshots, cluster subnet groups, and event subscriptions. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. This release supports two new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
December 7, 2016 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for a new managed rule: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
December 7, 2016 |
New and updated content | This release adds support for creating up to 50 rules per Region in an account. For more information, see AWS Config Limits in the AWS General Reference. | December 7, 2016 |
AWS Config supports the managed instance inventory resource type for Amazon EC2 Systems Manager and three new managed rules |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record software configuration changes on your managed instances with support for managed instance inventory. For more information, see Recording Software Configuration for Managed Instances. This release supports three new managed rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
December 1, 2016 |
AWS Config supports the Amazon S3 bucket resource and two new managed rules |
With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Amazon S3 buckets. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. This release supports two new managed rules: For more information, see AWS Config Managed Rules. |
October 18, 2016 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for AWS Config and AWS Config Rules in the US East (Ohio) Region. For more information, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference. |
October 17, 2016 |
New and updated managed rules | This update adds support for eight new managed rules: You can specify multiple parameter values for the following rules: For more information, see List of AWS Config Managed Rules. |
October 4, 2016 |
New and updated content for the AWS Config console | This update adds support for viewing AWS CloudTrail API activity in the AWS Config timeline. If CloudTrail is logging for your account, you can view create, update, and delete API events for configuration changes to your resources. For more information, see Viewing Compliance History for your AWS Resources with AWS Config. | September 06, 2016 |
AWS Config supports Elastic Load Balancing resource type | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Elastic Load Balancing application load balancers. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. | August 31, 2016 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for AWS Config Rules in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. For more information, see AWS Regions and Endpoints in the AWS General Reference. |
August 18, 2016 |
New and updated content for AWS Config Rules |
This update adds support for creating a rule that can be triggered by both configuration changes and at a periodic frequency that you choose. For more information, see Evaluation Mode and Trigger Types for AWS Config Rules. This update also adds support for manually evaluating your resources against your rule and deleting evaluation results. For more information, see Evaluating Your Resources with AWS Config Rules. This update also adds support for evaluating additional resource types using custom rules. For more information, see Evaluating Additional Resource Types. |
July 25, 2016 |
AWS Config supports Amazon RDS and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) resource types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) DB instances, DB security groups, DB snapshots, DB subnet groups, and event subscriptions. You can also use AWS Config to record configuration changes to certificates provided by ACM. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. |
July 21, 2016 |
Updated information about managing the configuration recorder | This update adds steps for renaming and deleting the configuration recorder to Working with the configuration recorder. | July 07, 2016 |
Simplified role creation and updated policies | With this update, creating an IAM role for AWS Config is simplified. This enhancement is available in regions that support Config rules. To support this enhancement, the steps in Setting Up AWS Config with the Console are updated, the example policy in Permissions for the Amazon S3 Bucket for the AWS Config Delivery Channel is updated, and the example policy in Identity-based policy examples for AWS Config is updated. | March 31, 2016 |
Example functions and events for Config rules | This update provides updated example functions in Example AWS Lambda Functions for AWS Config Rules (Node.js), and this update adds example events in Example Events for AWS Config Rules. | March 29, 2016 |
AWS Config Rules GitHub repository | This update adds information about the AWS Config Rules GitHub repository |
March 1, 2016 |
AWS Config Rules | This release introduces AWS Config Rules. With rules, you can use AWS Config to evaluate whether your AWS resources comply with your desired configurations. For more information, see Evaluating Resources with AWS Config Rules. | December 18, 2015 |
AWS Config supports IAM resource types | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your IAM users, groups, roles, and customer managed policies. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. | December 10, 2015 |
AWS Config supports EC2 Dedicated host | With this release, you can use AWS Config to record configuration changes to your EC2 Dedicated hosts. For more information, see Supported Resource Types for AWS Config. | November 23, 2015 |
Updated permissions information | This update adds information about the following AWS managed
policies for AWS Config:
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October 19, 2015 |
AWS Config Rules preview | This release introduces the AWS Config Rules preview. With rules, you can use AWS Config to evaluate whether your AWS resources comply with your desired configurations. For more information, see Evaluating Resources with AWS Config Rules. | October 7, 2015 |
New and updated content |
This release adds the ability to look up resources that AWS Config has discovered. For more information, see Looking Up Resources That Are Discovered by AWS Config. |
August 27, 2015 |
New and updated content |
This release adds the ability to select which resource types AWS Config records. For more information, see Recording AWS Resources with AWS Config. |
June 23, 2015 |
New and updated content |
This release adds support for the following regions: Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (Frankfurt), South America (São Paulo), and US West (N. California). For more information, see AWS Regions and Endpoints. |
April 6, 2015 |
New guide |
This release introduces AWS Config. |
November 12, 2014 |