Amazon Config in Amazon Web Services China
Amazon Config provides a detailed view of the configuration of Amazon resources in your Amazon Web Services account. This includes how the resources are related to one another and how they were configured in the past so that you can see how the configurations and relationships change over time.
An Amazon resource is an entity that you can work with in Amazon, such as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) user, or an Amazon Simple Storage Service Amazon S3) bucket.
With Amazon Config, you can do the following:
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Evaluate your Amazon resource configurations for desired settings.
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Get a snapshot of the current configurations of the supported resources that are associated with your Amazon Web Services account.
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Retrieve configurations of one or more resources that exist in your account.
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Retrieve historical configurations of one or more resources.
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Receive a notification whenever a resource is created, modified, or deleted.
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View relationships between resources. For example, you might want to find all resources that use a particular security group.
Region availability
Amazon Config is available in the following regions in China:
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China (Beijing) Region
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China (Ningxia) Region
How Amazon Config differs
The following differences apply to Amazon Config:
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For a list of Amazon resource types supported in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions, see Resource Coverage by Region Availability.
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Amazon Config recording of third-party resources or custom resource types is not available in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions.
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For a list of rules supported in the China (Beijing) Region, see List of Amazon Config Managed Rules by Region Availability | China (Beijing).
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For a list of rules supported in the China (Ningxia) Region, see List of Amazon Config Managed Rules by Region Availability | China (Ningxia).