AWS Config
AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. It continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. This helps you assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
Developers should use AWS Config when they need to ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory standards, track changes to AWS resources for troubleshooting or auditing purposes, and automate security assessments. It is particularly useful in environments with strict governance requirements, such as financial services or healthcare, and for implementing DevOps practices like infrastructure as code validation.