COURSE DESCRIPTION
Welcome to the AWS Config course! AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. It helps you maintain compliance, track configuration changes, and ensure that your AWS environment adheres to best practices and regulatory requirements. This course is designed for cloud administrators, compliance officers, and IT professionals who need to leverage AWS Config to manage and monitor their AWS resource configurations.
In this course, you will learn how to use AWS Config to track and assess resource configurations, set up compliance rules, and integrate with other AWS services for comprehensive monitoring. You will explore key features of AWS Config, understand how to configure and manage rules and compliance packs, and learn best practices for leveraging AWS Config to maintain governance and compliance in your AWS environment. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to implement effective configuration management and compliance strategies using AWS Config.
Course Objectives:
- Introduction to AWS Config
- Understanding AWS Config Architecture and Components
- Configuring and Managing AWS Config Rules
- Setting Up and Managing Compliance Packs
- Tracking and Assessing Resource Configurations
- Integrating AWS Config with AWS Services (CloudTrail, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Using AWS Config for Compliance and Governance
- Analyzing Config Data and Generating Reports
- Implementing Best Practices for Configuration Management
- Real-World Use Cases and Scenarios for AWS Config
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of AWS services and cloud computing
- Familiarity with AWS Management Console and resource management
- Understanding of compliance and governance concepts is helpful
Features
- Comprehensive understanding of AWS Config’s features and architecture
- Hands-on labs for configuring and managing AWS Config rules and compliance packs
- Best practices for tracking and assessing resource configurations
- Techniques for integrating AWS Config with other AWS services and tools
- Strategies for maintaining governance, compliance, and operational efficiency
Target audiences
- Cloud administrators and system administrators
- Compliance officers and auditors
- IT operations teams and DevOps engineers
- Security and risk management professionals