AWS Config

Records resource configuration changes in an account and Region and flags noncompliant resources with rules.

Provider: aws
Kind: Policy engine
Category: Operations
Official docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/WhatIsConfig.html

Properties · 4 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
aggregator · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
conformancePacks · component property	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
effect	enum	audit \| deny \| modify \| deploy-if-not-exists	no	—	▸ audit
enforcementMode	enum	enforced \| disabled	no	—	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ true
policyCount	integer	—	no	—	inherited
recordingFrequency · component property	enum	continuous \| daily	no	—	inherited
recordingStrategy · component property	enum	all-supported \| inclusion-by-resource-types \| exclusion-by-resource-types	no	—	inherited
remediation	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
scope	enum	resource \| group \| account \| organization	no	—	▸ account

Rules that apply · 0

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "config", component: "aws-config" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# AWS Config: managed recorder of resource configuration items in one account and Region, with rules
3# that flag noncompliant resources. Per "What Is AWS Config?" it detects and notifies; remediation is a
4# separate opt-in action, and aggregators are what widen the view past the account.
5schemaVersion: "1"
6type: "component"
7id: "aws-config"
8kind: "policy-engine"
9provider: "aws"
10docs: "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/WhatIsConfig.html"
11defaults:
12  effect: "audit"
13  scope: "account"
14  remediation: false
15  managed: true
16properties:
17  recordingStrategy:
18    type: "enum"
19    values: ["all-supported", "inclusion-by-resource-types", "exclusion-by-resource-types"]
20  recordingFrequency:
21    type: "enum"
22    values: ["continuous", "daily"]
23  aggregator:
24    type: "boolean"
25    default: false
26  conformancePacks:
27    type: "boolean"
28    default: false

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/aws-config.md