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AWS Config Expands Resource Type Coverage by 77 New AWS Services and Resources

AWS Config broadened visibility and compliance monitoring to 77 additional AWS resource types, increasing its scope over cloud infrastructure and services.

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Retrospective edition: 2026-10-07. Source published: 2026-10-07. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

AWS Config incorporated support for 77 new resource types including key services like Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 Files, and AWS Q Business. This expansion enables users to discover, assess, audit, and remediate a wider range of resources automatically, improving governance and security oversight across the AWS environment.

The new resource types integrate with Config rules and aggregators, so users with all-resource recording enabled immediately benefit. This extension aligns AWS Config’s capabilities with growing AWS service offerings, assisting organizations in maintaining comprehensive configuration compliance without manual updates.

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AWS Config now supports 77 new resource types ↗

Source published 2026-10-07. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.