Continuous monitoring of AWS resources in conjunction with maintaining updated infrastructure configurations is crucial for preserving the security posture of your AWS environment.

What is AWS Config?

AWS Config is a service that allows you to access, assess, and evaluate the compliance of your AWS environment. It streamlines the processes of compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and operational troubleshooting. AWS Config uses Rules (AWS Config Rules) to continuously monitor your resources and infrastructure configurations.

What are Conformance Packs?

An AWS Conformance Pack is a collection of pre-defined AWS Config Rules, along with their remediation actions, which can be deployed as a single entity within an AWS Account, Region, or across an entire organization.

AWS provides a range of conformance packs designed to align with various compliance regulations, such as HIPAA, CIS Level 1, FedRAMP, GDPR, and more. You can find these predefined conformance packs here.

Conformance Packs enable organizations of all sizes to quickly deploy infrastructure compliance monitoring solutions utilizing AWS tools. This approach saves time and engineering effort by using the ready-made Conformance Packs that follow specific compliance standards.

In our next blog post, we will discuss how to easily deploy Conformance Packs across an organization using an AWS Control Tower setup. This deployment method provides an efficient way to manage and monitor your AWS environment's compliance with industry-specific and organization-wide security requirements.