6.1

6.1 Create AWS Config Rules and Amazon CloudWatch Event Rules in Console

Review and ensure that you have setup your development environment before going through the steps below.

"AWS Config provides AWS managed rules, which are predefined, customizable rules that AWS Config uses to evaluate whether your AWS resources comply with common best practices. For example, you can define the rule's scope to constrain which resources trigger an evaluation for the rule, such as EC2 instances or volumes." Source

Launch a Managed Config Rule

1. Launch the AWS Config Console
2. Click Rules
3. Click Add rule
4. Type encrypted
5. Select encrypted-volumes
6. Click Save
7. Go to the AWS Config Dashboard and refresh the results

Additional Resources

• List of AWS Config Managed Rules
• Creating AWS Config Managed Rules With AWS CloudFormation Templates