October 2025
Feature | Description | Release date | Release region | Documentation |
Config AI assistant | The Config AI assistant uses large language models and an expert knowledge base to interpret natural language requests and recommend or generate compliance detection rules. | 2025-10-28 | all regions |
September 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Related documents |
Compliance packages | Added new compliance package templates: MLPS 2.0 Level 2 pre-check compliance package and MLPS 2.0 Level 3 pre-check compliance package. | 2024-09-11 | All regions |
June 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Compliance snapshot delivery | You can now schedule the delivery of complete rule evaluation results to Simple Log Service. Use these results to generate visual reports and analyze your compliance posture. | 2024-06-14 | All regions |
May 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Related documentation |
Support for compliance packages | Introduces the SOC 2 audit standard practice compliance pack and the ISO 27001 security management standard compliance pack. | 2024-05-24 | All regions |
February 2024
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Related documentation |
Folder-based account groups | You can create an account group for a specific folder in Resource Directory. Cloud Config then automatically synchronizes the members within that folder. | 2024-02-28 | all regions |
December 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Compliance package import and export | You can now export existing compliance packages as templates, making it easy to share, edit, and import them to quickly create compliance packages for other accounts or account groups. | 2023-12-30 | All regions | |
Integration of Cloud Config general quotas with Quota Center | Cloud Config general quotas now integrate with Quota Center. You can submit an application in the Quota Center console to increase quotas for items such as rules and account groups. | 2023-12-15 | All regions |
November 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Event delivery for the integration service | You can enable or disable event delivery for the integration service. Once enabled, Cloud Config automatically delivers non-compliance events to CloudMonitor and EventBridge. | 2023-11-30 | All regions |
October 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Compliance package support | This update adds the following compliance package templates: GxP EU Annex 11 standard compliance package, China GMP annex compliance package, Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework Security Pillar Best Practices, best practices for change management, best practices for resource expiration reminders, best practices for enabling resource backup, and best practices for Redis applications. | 2023-10-30 | All regions |
September 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Create a custom rule based on conditions | You can customize rule conditions using a visual editor or scripts. | 2023-09-19 | All regions |
May 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Compliance library | The compliance library provides a centralized location to view and enable the compliance package templates, rule templates, and remediation templates supported by Cloud Config. | 2023-05-16 | All regions |
April 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Custom remediation | Cloud Config now supports custom remediation for rules. This feature lets you use Function Compute (FC) to remediate non-compliant resources. | 2023-04-30 | all regions |
January 2023
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
Support for compliance packages | The Best Practice for Idle Resource Detection compliance package template is now available. This template helps you detect idle cloud resources, such as EIPs, Internet Shared Bandwidth, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), and VPN Gateway. Unused resources lead to unnecessary costs. Identify and manage these idle resources promptly to optimize your spending. | 2023-01-16 | All regions | |
Support for compliance packages | The Best Practice for Multi-availability Zone Architecture compliance package template is now available. This compliance package checks whether your existing cloud resources use a high-availability architecture and provides optimization recommendations to reduce availability risks. | 2023-01-12 | All regions | |
Support for compliance packages | The PCI DSS Data Security Standard compliance package template is now available. Based on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0, this compliance package checks your cloud resource usage and management and provides recommendations. | 2023-01-05 | All regions |
November 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Evaluation rules | When you create stacks in the Resource Orchestration Service (ROS) console, you can select rules to check the compliance of the cloud resources in the specified ROS template. | 2022-11-18 | All regions |
October 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Enhanced evaluation reports | Evaluation reports now include resource tag information. You can download the updated reports from the Rules and Compliance Package pages. | 2022-10-26 | All regions |
September 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Enhanced overview page | The Overview page lets you enable compliance packages, track the compliance trend over the last 180 days, and view statistics for non-compliant resources and rules. | 2022-09-07 | all regions |
August 2022
Feature | Description | Release Date | Region | Related Documentation |
Compliance package support | The "Best Practices for Public Network Access Detection" compliance package template is now available. Use this template to create a compliance package that checks for public network access on common cloud services. This helps you promptly detect risks. | August 31, 2022 | All regions |
June 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Related documents |
Tags for rules | You can add custom tags to rules to categorize and manage them. | 2022-06-29 | All regions | None |
Compliance packages | The BestPracticesForResourceStability compliance package template is now available. This package evaluates the stability of your cloud resources across six dimensions: high availability infrastructure, capacity protection, change management, monitoring management, backup management, and fault isolation. This helps you proactively identify risks, improving stability and O&M efficiency. | 2022-06-03 | All regions |
April 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Related documentation |
Support for delegated administrator accounts | The management account of a Resource Directory can designate a member account as the delegated administrator account for Cloud Config. | 2022-04-20 | All regions |
March 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Automatic delivery of non-compliance events to CloudMonitor | Cloud Config automatically delivers non-compliance events to CloudMonitor, where you can configure alert rules. | 2022-03-16 | All regions | Use CloudMonitor to trigger alert notifications for non-compliance events |
January 2022
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Advanced search for resources | Cloud Config supports the following types of advanced search:
| 2022-01-21 | All regions | |
Support for integrated services | Cloud Config supports the following integrated services:
| 2022-01-21 | All regions | |
View and download application architectures from CADT | Cloud Config retrieves application architectures from CADT in real time. In Cloud Config, you can view these architectures and their associated resources, and download the diagrams in PNG format. | 2022-01-20 | All regions |
November 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Compliance packages | The Compliance Practices template for compliance packages is now available in Governance Center. | 2021-11-02 | All regions |
April 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Compliance packages | Adds the following compliance package templates:
| 2021-04-20 | All regions |
March 2021
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Compliance packages | The following compliance package templates are now available:
| 2021-03-31 | All regions | |
Compliance packages | A compliance package is a collection of managed rules that Cloud Config creates for various compliance scenarios. It dynamically and continuously checks the compliance of your resources. The following compliance package templates are now available:
| 2021-03-15 | All regions | |
Account groups | Cloud Config has replaced Cloud Config for Enterprise with the account group feature to enhance multi-account compliance management. Account groups offer a more flexible way to manage resource compliance across multiple accounts. You can group member accounts into management units to apply specific compliance policies across your enterprise. | 2021-03-10 | All regions |
December 2020
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Integration with ActionTrail events | Cloud Config now integrates with ActionTrail. This lets you view operations that your Alibaba Cloud account and its RAM users performed in the Cloud Config console over the past 90 days. ActionTrail records these operations, such as accessing the Cloud Config console and OpenAPI, as events. | 2020-12-16 | All regions |
August 2020
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Delivery of resource logs to Log Service (SLS) | Deliver resource logs to a specific Logstore in Log Service (SLS). | 2020-08-18 | all regions |
March 2020
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Remediation settings | You can associate a remediation template with a rule. If Cloud Config detects a resource that violates this rule, you can use the template to automatically or manually remediate the non-compliant resource to ensure continuous compliance. | 2020-03-20 | All regions |
February 2020
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Sending resource events to Message Service (MNS) | You can send resource change events, resource non-compliance events, and resource snapshot delivery events to a specified topic in Message Service (MNS). | 2020-02-26 | All regions |
January 2020
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Custom risk levels for rules | You can define a risk level for each rule. This helps you prioritize which rules to focus on when non-compliance is detected. | 2020-01-15 | All regions | |
Associated resource information | The resource details page now lists all associated resources. | 2020-01-15 | All regions | |
Simplified display of non-compliance information | Non-compliance information now appears in a structured list, helping you identify non-compliant configurations at a glance. | 2020-01-15 | All regions |
December 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Resource snapshot delivery to Object Storage Service (OSS) | Deliver resource configuration history and scheduled snapshots to a specified OSS bucket. | 2019-12-30 | All regions | |
Support for new Alibaba Cloud services | Cloud Config continuously integrates with more Alibaba Cloud services. | 2019-12-30 | All regions | Alibaba Cloud services and resource types supported by Cloud Config |
November 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Custom rules | In addition to managed rules, you can create custom rules in Function Compute. | 2019-11-10 | All regions on the China site |
October 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | Documentation |
New managed rules | Cloud Config provides ready-to-use managed rules. | 2019-10-30 | Regions in the Chinese mainland | |
Expanded Alibaba Cloud service support | Cloud Config now supports more Alibaba Cloud services. | 2019-10-15 | Regions in the Chinese mainland |
September 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Enhanced resource search | You can filter resources by type, region, and compliance status, and search by resource ID. | 2019-09-30 | China site regions | |
Cloud Config Overview page | The Overview page displays a statistical view of resource distribution, compliance status, and recent changes. | 2019-09-20 | China site regions | |
New managed rules | Cloud Config offers ready-to-use managed rules. | 2019-09-20 | China site regions | |
Continuous compliance auditing |
| 2019-09-15 | China site regions |
August 2019
Feature | Description | Release date | Region | References |
Public preview of Cloud Config |
| 2019-08-31 | Regions on the China site (aliyun.com) |