Config provides a way to keep track of the configurations of all the Amazon Web Services resources associated with your Amazon Web Services account. You can use Config to get the current and historical configurations of each Amazon Web Services resource and also to get information about the relationship between the resources. An Amazon Web Services resource can be an Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, an Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume, an elastic network Interface (ENI), or a security group. For a complete list of resources currently supported by Config, see Supported Amazon Web Services resources.
You can access and manage Config through the Amazon Web Services Management Console, the Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface (Amazon Web Services CLI), the Config API, or the Amazon Web Services SDKs for Config. This reference guide contains documentation for the Config API and the Amazon Web Services CLI commands that you can use to manage Config. The Config API uses the Signature Version 4 protocol for signing requests. For more information about how to sign a request with this protocol, see Signature Version 4 Signing Process. For detailed information about Config features and their associated actions or commands, as well as how to work with Amazon Web Services Management Console, see What Is Config in the Config Developer Guide.
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Ensure you have the cloudformation:DescribeType role setup to validate the resource type schema.
You can find the Resource type schema in "Amazon Web Services public extensions" within the CloudFormation registry or with the following CLI commmand: aws cloudformation describe-type --type-name "AWS::S3::Bucket" --type RESOURCE.
For more information, see Managing extensions through the CloudFormation registry and Amazon Web Services resource and property types reference in the CloudFormation User Guide.
The schema type of the resource configuration.
You can find the Resource type schema, or CFN_RESOURCE_SCHEMA, in "Amazon Web Services public extensions" within the CloudFormation registry or with the following CLI commmand: aws cloudformation describe-type --type-name "AWS::S3::Bucket" --type RESOURCE.
For more information, see Managing extensions through the CloudFormation registry and Amazon Web Services resource and property types reference in the CloudFormation User Guide.
ResourceDetails object.
EvaluationContext:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/EvaluationContext'
- description: Returns an EvaluationContext object.
EvaluationMode:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/EvaluationMode'
- description: The mode of an evaluation. The valid values for this API are DETECTIVE and PROACTIVE.
EvaluationTimeout:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/EvaluationTimeout'
- description: The timeout for an evaluation. The default is 900 seconds. You cannot specify a number greater than 3600. If you specify 0, Config uses the default.
ClientToken:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/ClientToken'
- description: A client token is a unique, case-sensitive string of up to 64 ASCII characters. To make an idempotent API request using one of these actions, specify a client token in the request.
Avoid reusing the same client token for other API requests. If you retry a request that completed successfully using the same client token and the same parameters, the retry succeeds without performing any further actions. If you retry a successful request using the same client token, but one or more of the parameters are different, other than the Region or Availability Zone, the retry fails with an IdempotentParameterMismatch error.