Overview

Introduction

The resource recorder automatically detects and records changes made to your resources. It helps you easily monitor resource changes.

To be specific, the resource recorder

• Notifies you when resources are created, modified, or deleted.
• Notifies you when resource relationships are changed.
• Stores resource change notifications every 6 hours.
• Stores resource snapshots every 24 hours.

For details about resources that can be tracked by the resource recorder, see Services and Regions Supported by Config.

For details about resource relationships that can be tracked by the resource recorder, see Relationships with Supported Resources.

Notes and Constraints

• When enabling and configuring the resource recorder, you must configure Topic orResource Dump.
• When you configure Topic, if you select a topic in a region but do not add a subscription, you cannot receive a message when resources change.
• The resource recorder only updates data for specified resources.
• By default, resource configuration information is stored for seven years (2557 days).

To get full functionality of Config, you need to enable the resource recorder. If the resource recorder is disabled, Config may fail to aggregate resource data, collect resource data, and accurately evaluate your resources.