Viewing Configuration Snapshots in Amazon S3 bucket - Amazon Config
Viewing Configuration Snapshots
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Viewing Configuration Snapshots in Amazon S3 bucket

A configuration snapshot is a collection of the configuration items for the supported resources that exist in your account. This configuration snapshot is a complete picture of the resources that are being recorded and their configurations. The configuration snapshot can be a useful tool for validating your configuration. For example, you may want to examine the configuration snapshot regularly for resources that are configured incorrectly or that potentially should not exist. The configuration snapshot is available in multiple formats. You can have the configuration snapshot delivered to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can select a point in time in the Amazon Config console and navigate through the snapshot of configuration items using the relationships between the resources.

Viewing Configuration Snapshots

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/s3/.

  2. In the Amazon S3 console All Buckets list, choose the name of your Amazon S3 bucket.

  3. Go through the nested folders in your bucket until you see the ConfigSnapshot object with a snapshot ID that matches with the ID returned by the command. Download and open the object to view the configuration snapshot.. The S3 bucket also contains an empty file named ConfigWritabilityCheckFile. Amazon Config creates this file to verify that the service can successfully write to the S3 bucket.