Announcing the new pricing plan for AWS Config rules

I honestly don&#x27;t understand how AWS expects folks to take Config seriously when it&#x27;s missing support for the majority of the AWS services portfolio.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;config&#x2F;latest&#x2F;developerguide&#x2F;resource-config-reference.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&#x2F;config&#x2F;latest&#x2F;developerguide&#x2F;res...</a><p>It&#x27;s incredibly frustrating too, because the Config recorder builds a nice graph of related objects for you (although it would be nice if they added ARN references rather than just IDs) and the Config rules &#x27;marketplace&#x27; could be a nice place for vendors to ship a variety of regulatory and standards compliance kits.<p>We have hundreds of AWS accounts and all but ignore the service in favor of third party, open source and in-house built products with appropriate coverage.

What is the benefit of running this instead of using tools like Chef InSpec (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;inspec&#x2F;inspec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;inspec&#x2F;inspec</a>) or Cloud Custodian (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloud-custodian&#x2F;cloud-custodian" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cloud-custodian&#x2F;cloud-custodian</a>)?

This is welcome. I got a rude awakening the first time I turned config rules on when the bill came in, and it kept coming even after they were killed in the UI. I had racked up over $100 in a few months in config bills with the rules being disabled but in an odd state. Thankfully AWS gave us a credit, but I haven&#x27;t really wanted to mess with them since. I&#x27;ll give them another look now that the pricing is more in line with a usage model.

&gt;AWS Config helps you assess and maintain compliance over your AWS resource configurations.<p>Well that&#x27;s pretty cheeky, calling all us developers asses! ;)<p>What, that word was &quot;assess&quot;? Oh, never mind.<p>-The Emily Litella of the Net