AWS Config monitors and records your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resource configurations so you can automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. With AWS Config, you can examine detailed resource configuration histories and determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines.

In this course, you will learn the benefits, typical use cases, and technical concepts of AWS Config. You will have an opportunity to try the service through demonstrations on the AWS Management Console.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 1.5 hours

Activities

This course includes presentations, graphics, and interactive activities.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Understand how AWS Config works.
• Familiarize yourself with the technical concepts of AWS Config.
• List typical use cases for AWS Config.
• Specify what it would take to implement AWS Config in a real-world scenario.
• Recognize the benefits of AWS Config.
• Explain the cost structure of AWS Config.
• Show how to use AWS Config from the AWS Management Console and using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

• Solutions architects
• Cloud practitioners
• IT professionals
• IT leaders

Prerequisites

No prerequisites needed.

Course outline

•       AWS Config Basics
•       AWS Config Use Cases
•       AWS Config Cost Structure
•       How to Use AWS Config
•       AWS Config Demonstration
•       Learn More