What happens if I disable the Amazon EC2 Config Service on my windows instances? Is that service required? Are there performance benefits to disabling?
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From the docs:
The EC2Config service sets up and initializes the instance during startup, prepares the service for bundling, and manages the event log.
The startup aspect is definitely necessary, and performance/memory hits should be extremely tiny. I wouldn't consider this to be a factor if you're tweaking your server for performance.