AOSSEC02-BP04 Assess your OpenSearch Service domain's configuration with AWS Config
Use AWS Config to evaluate your OpenSearch Service domain's configuration settings, gaining visibility into potential issues or areas for improvement and enhancing compliance and security.
Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium
Desired outcome: You assess OpenSearch Service domains' configuration settings using AWS Config.
Benefits of establishing this best practice:
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Improved configuration visibility: Assessing OpenSearch Service domains' configuration settings using AWS Config provides visibility into domain configurations, helping you identify potential issues or areas for improvement.
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Enhanced compliance and security: By using AWS Config to detect security risks or compliance issues, organizations can take corrective actions to meet their requirements, which creates a more secure and compliant setup for their OpenSearch Service domains.
Implementation guidance
To maintain optimal configuration and alignment with your organization's security and compliance requirements, it's essential to regularly assess the settings of your OpenSearch Service domains. To do this, use AWS Config, which provides a service that automatically evaluates and reports on the configuration of your AWS resources, including your OpenSearch Service domains.
With AWS Config, you can gain visibility into your domain
configurations, identify potential security risks or compliance
issues, and take corrective actions to meet your organization's
requirements. To set up AWS Config for compliance notifications,
see
Getting
Started with AWS Config,
List
of AWS Config Managed Rules and
Security
Best Practices for Amazon OpenSearch Service
