What resource type in AWS Config gathers data from multiple accounts and regions?

AWS Config Aggregators are specifically designed to gather and consolidate configuration data from multiple accounts and regions within an AWS environment. This allows organizations to have a centralized view of their resource configurations, enabling them to ensure compliance and understand their overall resource landscape across various setups.

Using AWS Config Aggregators, administrators can aggregate resource configurations from multiple AWS accounts and from multiple regions, making it easier to monitor compliance with policies and address potential misconfigurations efficiently. This capability is crucial for organizations that manage resources across different departments or geographical locations, as it simplifies the compliance assessment and resource management process.

In contrast, other options like AWS CloudFormation are primarily focused on infrastructure as code for provisioning resources rather than gathering configuration data. AWS Control Tower offers a way to govern a multi-account AWS environment but does not specifically aggregate configurations. Similarly, AWS CloudTrail focuses on the logging of API calls and user activity rather than configurations, making it less relevant in the context of collecting and consolidating resource state information across accounts and regions.