# Security Best Practices for Amazon Config
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 Amazon Config provides a number of security features to consider as you develop and implement your own security policies. The following best practices are general guidelines and don’t represent a complete security solution. Because these best practices might not be appropriate or sufficient for your environment, treat them as helpful considerations rather than prescriptions. 
+ Leverage tagging for Amazon Config, which makes is easier to manage, search for, and filter resources.
+ Confirm your [delivery channels](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/config/latest/developerguide/manage-delivery-channel.html) have been properly set, and once confirmed, verify that Amazon Config is [recording properly](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/config/latest/developerguide/stop-start-recorder.html).

For more information, see [Amazon Config best practices](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/aws-config-best-practices/) blog.