Streamline compliance management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article discusses how to manage compliance controls with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs. It explains that custom rules written in AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard) domain-specific language (DSL) can be used to define custom policies and evaluate resource compliance.
Specifically, the article covers:
- What are AWS Config custom rules, conformance packs, and how they help manage compliance at scale
- A sample conformance pack with one managed rule (access-keys-rotated), and three custom policy rules (custom-ddb-pit-recovery, custom-gp3-iops, custom-s3-kms-encryption)
- Steps to deploy the sample conformance pack in the AWS Config console
- How to check the conformance pack compliance score in the AWS Config console
- Steps to clean up and delete the sample conformance pack
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