Why Choose This Project?

Organizations deploying workloads on cloud platforms must comply with security policies, industry standards, and regulatory requirements. Manual audits are time-consuming and error-prone. Using AWS Config or Azure Security Hub, this project automates continuous compliance monitoring, helping teams detect violations, enforce best practices, and maintain governance efficiently.

What You Get

Continuous compliance checks across cloud resources
Automated alerts for non-compliant configurations
Reports and dashboards to track compliance trends
Integration with CI/CD pipelines for proactive checks
Audit logs for regulatory or internal review

Key Features

Technology Stack

Cloud Compliance Tools:

• AWS Config (with AWS Config Rules) or Azure Security Hub

Infrastructure Layer:

• AWS EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda or Azure VMs, Storage, App Services

Notification & Monitoring:

• AWS SNS / Azure Monitor

• Email / Slack / Teams for alerts

CI/CD Integration (Optional):

• Jenkins / GitLab CI / GitHub Actions

Reporting & Storage:

• Cloud-native dashboards

• Cloud Storage / S3 / Azure Blob for logs and historical compliance reports

Cloud Services Used

• AWS Config / Azure Security Hub – Core compliance auditing service

• CloudWatch / Azure Monitor – Metrics collection and alerting

• SNS / Teams / Email – Notifications for violations

• S3 / Azure Blob – Storage for audit logs and reports

Working Flow

1. Define Compliance Policies – Select predefined standards (CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA) or create custom rules.

2. Resource Discovery – AWS Config or Azure Security Hub discovers cloud resources across accounts/regions.

3. Continuous Evaluation – Automatically checks resource configurations against compliance rules.

4. Alerting & Notification – Sends notifications when non-compliance is detected.

5. Remediation – Provides recommended actions to fix violations, optionally automated.

6. Reporting & Audit – Generates periodic compliance reports and maintains historical logs for audits.

Main Modules

• Policy Definition Module – Configures compliance rules and standards

• Resource Monitoring Module – Continuously scans cloud resources

• Alerting Module – Sends notifications on violations

• Reporting Module – Generates dashboards and historical compliance reports

• Remediation Module – Provides automated or manual remediation steps

Security Features

• Role-based access to compliance dashboards

• Encryption of audit logs and historical reports

• Read-only access for auditors

• Automated detection of risky or non-compliant changes