Simplify compliance management of multicloud or hybrid resources with AWS Config

This article explains how to use AWS Config to monitor and manage compliance for resources across multicloud or hybrid environments, including non-AWS resources. It provides two approaches: a trigger-based approach and a periodic evaluation approach.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Prerequisites and solution architecture for managing multicloud/hybrid resource compliance with AWS Config
• Walkthrough for the periodic evaluation approach, using an Azure Blob Storage as an example
• Walkthrough for the trigger-based approach, using an Azure Network Security Group as an example
• How to create custom AWS Config resources and rules to assess and evaluate non-AWS resource configurations
• Conclusion on using AWS Config for multicloud/hybrid compliance management