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Auditing and notifications

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- [Instructor] There are a number of key AWS services that you can consider for helping you manage your security, for auditing and for notification when things go awry. First up, AWS config. This is a service that allows you to define parameters for what should be checked and how you should be notified. These are checks for the resources in your AWS account, your networks, your EC2 instances, your security groups, everything in your stack IE infrastructure. Once you define your rules AWS, either on a schedule or when there are changes, will check the configuration of the resources and let you know if there's an issue. So it's doing an audit of your account and will also notify you when something's awry. Now, how does it work? Well, you have to tag your resources. A tag is just a descriptor, a key value that describes the actual resource. And when you create any AWS resource, you have the opportunity of adding tags to that resource. So config swings into action. Looking at the…

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