AWS Config on FivexL. Cloud Engineering Specialists/tags/aws-config/Recent content in AWS Config on FivexL. Cloud Engineering SpecialistsHugoen-USinfo@fivexl.io (FivexL)info@fivexl.io (FivexL)Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000How to Reduce AWS Config Costs in AWS Control Tower/blog/reduce-aws-config-costs-control-tower/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000info@fivexl.io (FivexL)/blog/reduce-aws-config-costs-control-tower/<p>If you run AWS Control Tower, you&rsquo;ve probably noticed that AWS Config records everything in every managed account. The bill and the noise both grow with each new account.</p> <h3 id="why-the-aws-config-bill-keeps-growing">Why the AWS Config bill keeps growing</h3> <p>AWS Config records every supported resource type, and you pay based on the number of resources recorded. Control Tower sets Config into continuous recording mode, which means every ephemeral resource gets recorded.</p> <p>If you have many ephemeral resources, like ENIs from restarting ECS tasks, Config records all of them.</p>