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CIS Foundations Benchmark

CIS Foundations Benchmark

Modules and utilities certified by Gruntwork and CIS to comply with the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark

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CIS Benchmark Version maintained%20by gruntwork.io %235849a6 Terraform version

This module wraps the aws-config core module to configure [AWS Config](https://aws.amazon.com/config/) in all enabled regions for the AWS Account.

aws config architecture

Features

The wrapper configures the core module for compliance in the following ways:

  • Enable AWS Config in all regions

  • Store config items in S3 bucket for persistence

  • Configure config items to be automatically archive and delete after a certain time period

  • Designate and configure a global recorder region

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Note
This repo is a part of the Gruntwork CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark Infrastructure as Code Library, a collection of reusable, battle-tested, production ready infrastructure code to achieve compliance with the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark. If you’ve never used the Infrastructure as Code Library before, make sure to read How to use the Gruntwork Infrastructure as Code Library!

Core concepts

Repo organization

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The compliance-related settings are hard-coded in this wrapper module. Otherwise, the module can be used in the same manner as the core module that it wraps. All variables are simply passed through.

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Contributions

Contributions to this repo are very welcome and appreciated! If you find a bug or want to add a new feature or even contribute an entirely new module, we are very happy to accept pull requests, provide feedback, and run your changes through our automated test suite.

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Please see LICENSE.txt for details on how the code in this repo is licensed.

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