Open Terminal on your own device, with AWS CLI v2 installed. Execute these commands:

• mkdir aws-config-lab: create a new foler.
• cd aws-config-lab: change directory to aws-config-lab.
• type aws configure: config your aws cli with your access and secret key (you can create one if you haven't had yet in IAM Users).

To verify that your configuration recorder has the settings that you want:

aws configservice describe-configuration-recorders --region YOUR-REGION-CODE

Check File delivery status. Mind the configHistoryDeliveryInfo (Enabled when you set up the configuration recorder.) & configSnapshotDeliveryInfo

aws configservice describe-delivery-channel-status --region YOUR-REGION-CODE

We will use AWS CLI put-delivery-channel to enable configuration snapshot.

First, create “skeleton” file deliveryChannel.json . Here we configure the frequency 1 hour

Note: Please create the file deliveryChannel.json in the aws-config-lab folder

{
    "name": "default",
    "s3BucketName": "YOUR-S3-BUCKET-NAME",
    "snsTopicARN": "YOUR-SNS-TOPIC-ARN",
    "configSnapshotDeliveryProperties": {
        "deliveryFrequency": "One_Hour"
    }
}

Note: Remember to save the file before execute the next command line.

Now, open your terminal again and execute the command put-delivery-channel. A successul command results in nothing

aws configservice put-delivery-channel --delivery-channel file://deliveryChannel.json --region YOUR-REGION-CODE

To view the configuration of channel, execute:

aws configservice describe-delivery-channels --region YOUR-REGION-CODE

Again, describe-delivery-channel-status will see new thing of configSnapshotDeliveryInfo

aws configservice describe-delivery-channel-status --region YOUR-REGION-CODE

If we want to configure Config-Snapshot on-demand instead of waiting for next period of update, use AWS CLI deliver-config-snapshot

aws configservice deliver-config-snapshot --delivery-channel-name default --region YOUR-REGION-CODE

Verify again by CLI, as well as check new object on S3 bucket

aws configservice describe-delivery-channel-status --region YOUR-REGION-CODE