Posted On: Jun 4, 2019
Effective August 1st, 2019, Amazon Config rules will switch to a new pay-per-use pricing model, lowering the bill for almost all existing Amazon Config rules customers. Amazon Config helps you assess and maintain compliance over your Amazon Web Services resource configurations. You can use Amazon Config rules to view compliance history and trends, identify configuration drift, and remediate configurations that fall out of compliance. Today, Amazon Config rules are priced based on the number of active Amazon Config rules you have in your account. An active rule is defined as a rule that records a compliance result against at least one resource during the month. In the new pricing model, you will be charged based on your monthly Amazon Config rule evaluations. A rule evaluation is recorded every time you compare your resource configuration against the rule. This better aligns with your actual usage of Amazon Config rules as your charges are based on the frequency and the number of resources evaluated. The new pricing delivers value by supporting volume usage, giving you more control of the Amazon Config rule cost in your account. Tiered pricing makes it more affordable than ever to implement configuration compliance within your Amazon Web Services environment, for as little as ¥0.0033 per rule evaluation. This new pricing is designed to provide almost all of the current Amazon Config rules customers with a significant reduction in their Config rules bill.
To get more details and benefits of the new pricing model, check out the Amazon Config pricing page .