AWS Config continuously audits, assesses, and evaluates the configurations of your AWS
AWS Config rules continuously evaluate your AWS resource configurations for desired settings.
In this post, we introduce our Duplicate Rule Detection tool, built to help customers identify duplicate AWS Config rules and sources.
This serverless solution collects the current active AWS Config rules and identifies duplicates based on identical sources, scopes, input parameters, and states.
Some options you can take to resolve duplicate AWS Config rules include: If conformance packs were deployed from AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup
After the assessment is complete and duplicate rules are identified, you can work to consolidate rules and resolve duplicates.
AWS Config provides a dashboard to view resources, rules, conformance packs, and their compliance states.
For AWS customers, it’s critical to understand the compliance of resources as it relates to specific rules—such as default encryption settings or making sure that network connections are encrypted.
This post provides a solution to assess the currently deployed AWS Config rules in a single AWS account and Region to identify when duplicate rules exist.
This approach will help to optimize your compliance posture by reducing complexity and eliminating unnecessary redundancy.