List of Amazon Config Managed Rules by Evaluation Mode

Amazon Config currently supports the following managed rules.

Considerations

Defaut Values for Managed Rules

The default values specified for managed rules are pre-populated only when using the Amazon console. Default values are not supplied for the API, CLI, or SDK.

Configuration Item Recording Delays

Amazon Config usually records configuration changes to your resources right after a change is detected, or at the frequency that you specify. However, this is on a best effort basis and can take longer at times. Some resource types with known delays include: AWS::SecretsManager::Secret.

Directory Buckets Are Not Supported

Managed rules only support general purpose buckets when evaluating Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) resources. Amazon Config doesn’t record configuration changes for directory buckets. For more information on general purpose buckets and directory buckets, see Buckets overview and Directory buckets in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Managed Rules and Global IAM Resource Types

The global IAM resource types onboarded before February 2022 (AWS::IAM::Group, AWS::IAM::Policy, AWS::IAM::Role, and AWS::IAM::User) can only be recorded by Amazon Config in Amazon Regions where Amazon Config was available before February 2022. These resource types cannot be recorded in Regions supported by Amazon Config after February 2022. For a list of those Regions, see Recording Amazon Resources | Global Resources.

If you record a global IAM resource type in at least one Region, periodic rules that report compliance on the global IAM resource type will run evaluations in all Regions where the periodic rule is added, even if you have not enabled the recording of the global IAM resource type in the Region where the periodic rule was added.

To avoid unnecessary evaluations, you should only deploy periodic rules that report compliance on a global IAM resource type to one of the supported Regions. For a list of which managed rules are supported in which Regions, see List of Amazon Config Managed Rules by Region Availability.

Proactive Evaluation

Proactive rules are rules that support the proactive evaluation mode for resources that have not been deployed. This allows you to evaluate whether a set of resource properties, if used to define an Amazon resource, would be COMPLIANT or NON_COMPLIANT given the set of proactive rules that you have in your account in your Region. For more information, see Evaluation modes.

Detective Evaluation

Detective rules are rules that support the detective evaluation mode for resource that have already been deployed. This allows you to evaluate the configuration settings of your existing resources.