A financial startup is getting ISO 27001 certified for the first time. External auditors send a requirements list. "Cases of console access without MFA in past 6 months," "RDS encryption adoption survey," "complete IAM policy change history." The operations team digs through CloudTrail logs, exports Config results to Excel, manually takes screenshots for PDF. Two people spent 3 weeks. Next year the audit's scheduled again. Will they need another 3 weeks?
This is the problem AWS Audit Manager solves. Audits are inherently periodic, evidence formats differ per Framework, and the same evidence is often requested by multiple Frameworks repeatedly