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# Inventory and Configuration Management
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 AWS offers a range of tools to allow you to move fast, while still enabling you to ensure that your cloud resources comply with organizational standards and best practices. These include: 
+  Deployment tools to manage the creation and decommissioning of AWS resources according to organization standards. 
+  Inventory and configuration management tools to identify AWS resources and then track and manage changes to those resources over time. 
+  Template definition and management tools to create standard, preconfigured, hardened virtual machines for EC2 instances.