Relationships with Other Services

The following describes the relationships between Config and other services.

Table 1 Relationships between Config and other services

Service

Description

Function

Related Operation

SMN

You can specify an SMN topic when you enable the resource recorder.

Note

If you have configured an OBS bucket and you do not need notifications for resource changes, you do not need to configure an SMN topic.

You will receive a notification if a change is made to your resource.

Enabling the Resource Recorder

OBS

You can specify an OBS bucket when you enable the resource recorder.

Note

If you have configured an SMN topic and you do not need an OBS bucket for resource dump, you do not need to configure an OBS bucket.

  • The resource recorder stores resource change notifications into your specified OBS bucket every 6 hours (an SMN topic also needs to be specified).

  • The resource recorder stores your resource snapshots into the OBS bucket every 24 hours.

Enabling the Resource Recorder

IAM

  • You need to assign Config related permissions when you configure the resource recorder.

  • You can use IAM to control users' access to Config.

  • Quick granting automatically assigns Config the permissions to send notifications using the specified SMN topic and to write data into the specified OBS bucket. You can also choose Custom granting to modify the permission scope.

  • You can assign users system-defined or custom policies to decide which operations they can perform on Config.

CTS

CTS records operations on Config.

CTS helps you record operations on Config for later query, audit, and backtrack.

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