Recording Configurations for Third-Party Resources using the Amazon CLI - Amazon Config
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Recording Configurations for Third-Party Resources using the Amazon CLI

Record configurations for third-party resources or custom resource types such as on premise servers, SAAS monitoring tools, and version control systems (like GitHub).

You can publish the configuration data of third-party resources into Amazon Config and view and monitor the resource inventory and configuration history using the Amazon Config console and APIs. You can use Amazon Config to manage all your resources and evaluate resource configuration for compliance against best practices using Amazon Config rules. You can also create Amazon Config rules or conformance packs to evaluate these third-party resources against best practices, internal policies, and regulatory policies.

Note

If you have configured Amazon Config to record all resource types, then third-party resources that are managed (created, updated, or deleted) through Amazon CloudFormation are automatically tracked in Amazon Config as configuration items.

Prerequisite: The third-party resources or custom resource type must be registered using Amazon CloudFormation.

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