Cloud Config continuously and automatically evaluates the compliance of your resources in the cloud. You can specify an Alibaba Cloud service to receive the resource-related events at regular intervals. This allows you to monitor resource changes and perform operations on resources.
Billing
Cloud Config offers a free-of-charge delivery service of resource-related events. However, you are charged by the Alibaba Cloud services that receive these events. The following list provides the topics that describe the pricing of the related Alibaba Cloud services:
For information about the pricing of Simple Log Service, see Billable items.
For information about the pricing of Object Storage Service (OSS), see Overview.
For information about the pricing of Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS), see Billing.
Scenarios
The delivery service is applicable to the following scenarios:
Query and analyze data of your resources.
You can specify a Simple Log Service Logstore to which you want to deliver scheduled resource snapshots, resource change logs, compliance snapshots, and resource non-compliance events.
View and download data in the JSON format.
You can specify an OSS bucket to which you want to deliver the scheduled snapshots and configuration change logs of resources.
Send event notifications.
You can specify an SMQ topic to which notifications of resource change events and resource non-compliance events are sent.
Limits
In single-account mode, you can add up to five deliveries.
In multi-account mode, you can create up to five deliveries for each account group.