A company wants to implement continuous compliance monitoring for their AWS environment. They want to be alerted if any Amazon S3 bucket becomes publicly accessible or if any IAM user has a password older than 90 days. Which AWS service is BEST suited for this?

Answer options:

AWS CloudTrail

AWS Config

Amazon Inspector

AWS Trusted Advisor

How to approach this question

Identify the service for configuration compliance.

Full Answer

B.AWS Config✓ Correct

AWS Config enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. You can use AWS Config Rules to check for specific conditions, such as public S3 buckets or old IAM passwords.

Common mistakes

Choosing CloudTrail, which is for auditing *who* did what, not *what state* the resource is currently in.

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