How to Find AWS Regions Without AWS Config Enabled

The AWS configuration item history captured by AWS Config enables security analysis, resource change tracking and compliance auditing.

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This security check is part of the CIS Amazon Web Services Benchmarks and is rated severity medium.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes that you have already installed and configured Fix Inventory to collect your AWS resources.

Directions

1. Execute the following search command in Fix Inventory Shell:

   > search is(aws_region) with(empty, --> is(aws_config_recorder) and recorder_status.recording=true and recorder_group.all_supported=true and recorder_status.last_status=SUCCESS)
   ​kind=aws_region, ..., region=fixinventory-poweruser
   ​kind=aws_region, ..., account=poweruser-team

2. Pipe the search command into the dump command:

   > search is(aws_region) with(empty, --> is(aws_config_recorder) and recorder_status.recording=true and recorder_group.all_supported=true and recorder_status.last_status=SUCCESS) | dump
   ​reported:
   ​  id: /aws/config/123
   ​  name: some-name
   ​  ctime: '2022-12-05T22:53:14Z'
   ​  kind: aws_region
   ​  age: 2mo28d

   The command output will list the details of all non-compliant aws_region resources.

Remediation

• Enable AWS Config in all regions.

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Please refer to the AWS Config documentation for details.

Further Reading

• Search
• Command-Line Interface
• aws_region Resource Data Model

External Links

• CIS Amazon Web Services Benchmarks
• AWS Documentation