Discover duplicate AWS Config rules for streamlined compliance
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This article discusses a tool to help AWS customers identify duplicate AWS Config rules across different services like AWS Config conformance packs, AWS Security Hub standards, and AWS Control Tower controls. The tool detects duplicate rules based on identical sources, scopes, input parameters, and states.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Solution overview and architecture
- Prerequisites and walkthrough for deploying the solution via CloudFormation
- Validating the output to identify duplicate rules across AWS Config, Security Hub, and Control Tower
- Options for resolving duplicate rules by consolidating rule deployment
- Clean up steps to remove the deployed resources
- Conclusion highlighting the importance of optimizing compliance posture by reducing rule duplication
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