Turning on Proactive Evaluation for AWS Config Rules
You can use the AWS Config console or the AWS SDKs to turn on proactive evaluation rules. For a list of resource types and managed rules that support proactive evaluation, see Components of a Rule | Evaluation Modes.
Turning on Proactive Evaluation (Console)
The Rules page shows your rules and their current compliance results in a table. The result for each rule is Evaluating... until AWS Config finishes evaluating your resources against the rule. You can update the results with the refresh button.
When AWS Config finishes evaluations, you can see the rules and resource types that are compliant or noncompliant. For more information, see Viewing Compliance Information and Evaluation Results for your AWS Resources with AWS Config.
Note
AWS Config evaluates only the resource types that it is recording. For example, if you add the cloudtrail-enabled rule but don't record the CloudTrail trail resource type, AWS Config can't evaluate whether the trails in your account are compliant or noncompliant. For more information, see Recording AWS Resources with AWS Config.