Leveraging AWS Config for Inventory, Compliance, and Business Decision-Making

Introduction

• Overview of the session and the presenters
• Introducing the topic of leveraging AWS Config for inventory, compliance, and business decision-making

Customers' Challenges in Implementing Resource Configuration

• Dynamic and decentralized infrastructure landscape due to modernization, pipelines, and time-to-market pressures
• Need for continuous governance and compliance across the organization

AWS Config: A Foundational Service for Resource Configuration Management

• AWS Config as a managed service for recording changes in your resources
• Configuration items and their attributes (metadata, relationships, and current configuration)
• Configuration history and configuration snapshots
• Excluding resource types from being recorded
• Extending AWS Config with custom resource types

Compliance at Scale with AWS Config Rules

• Periodic and change-triggered rules
• Managed rules and custom rules
• Integrating with AWS Systems Manager for automated remediation

Aggregating and Querying Configuration Data

• AWS Config Aggregator for a centralized view across regions and accounts
• Advanced querying capabilities with SQL-like statements

ITA's Use Case: Leveraging AWS Config for Business Value

• ITA's technology organization and the role of cloud governance
• Challenges in managing thousands of accounts and millions of resources
• ITA's three-pillar approach: visibility, monitoring, and planning
• Building a cloud metadata platform using AWS Config
• Enriching the data with product-specific information
• Empowering business units with self-service access and insights

Key Takeaways and Resources

• Leveraging AWS Config for resource inventory and configuration management at scale
• Extracting business value from the configuration data
• Using AWS Config for troubleshooting and remediation
• Resources for getting started with AWS Config