# Deleting Amazon Config Rules
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You can use the Amazon Config console or the Amazon SDKs to delete your rules.

**Topics**
+ [Considerations](#evaluate-config_delete-rules-considerations)
+ [Using the console](#evaluate-config_delete-rules-console)
+ [Using the Amazon SDKs](#evaluate-config_delete-rules-cli)

## Considerations
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**Recommendation: Consider excluding the `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance` resource type from recording before deleting rules**

Deleting rules creates configuration items (CIs) for `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance` that can affect your costs for the configuration recorder. If you are deleting rules which evaluate a large number of resource types, this can lead to a spike in the number of CIs recorded.

To avoid the associated costs, you can opt to disable recording for the `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance` resource type before deleting rules, and re-enable recording after the rules have been deleted.

However, since deleting rules is an asynchronous process, it might take an hour or more to complete. During the time when recording is disabled for `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance`, rule evaluations will not be recorded in the associated resource’s history.

## Deleting Rules (Console)
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The **Rules** page shows your rules and their current compliance results in a table. The result for each rule is **Evaluating...** until Amazon Config finishes evaluating your resources against the rule. You can update the results with the refresh button. When Amazon Config finishes evaluations, you can see the rules and resource types that are compliant or noncompliant. For more information, see [Viewing Compliance Information and Evaluation Results for your Amazon Resources with Amazon Config](evaluate-config_view-compliance.md).

**Note**  
Amazon Config evaluates only the resource types that it is recording. For example, if you add the **cloudtrail-enabled** rule but don't record the CloudTrail trail resource type, Amazon Config can't evaluate whether the trails in your account are compliant or noncompliant. For more information, see [Recording Amazon Resources with Amazon ConfigConsiderations](select-resources.md).

### Deleting rules
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**To delete a rule**

1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon Config console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/config/home](https://console.amazonaws.cn/config/home).

1. In the Amazon Web Services Management Console menu, verify that the region selector is set to a region that supports Amazon Config rules. For the list of supported regions, see [Amazon Config Regions and Endpoints](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/general/latest/gr/rande.html#awsconfig_region) in the *Amazon Web Services General Reference*. 

1. In the left navigation, choose **Rules**. 

1. Choose a rule from the table that you want to delete.

1. From the **Actions** dropdown list, choose **Delete rule**.

1. When prompted, type "Delete" (case-sensitive) and then choose **Delete**.

## Deleting Rules (Amazon SDKs)
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### Deleting rules
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The following code examples show how to use `DeleteConfigRule`.

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#### [ CLI ]

**Amazon CLI**  
**To delete an Amazon Config rule**  
The following command deletes an Amazon Config rule named `MyConfigRule`:  

```
aws configservice delete-config-rule --config-rule-name MyConfigRule
```
+  For API details, see [DeleteConfigRule](https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/configservice/delete-config-rule.html) in *Amazon CLI Command Reference*. 

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#### [ Python ]

**SDK for Python (Boto3)**  
 There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the [Amazon Code Examples Repository](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/tree/main/python/example_code/config#code-examples). 

```
class ConfigWrapper:
    """
    Encapsulates AWS Config functions.
    """

    def __init__(self, config_client):
        """
        :param config_client: A Boto3 AWS Config client.
        """
        self.config_client = config_client


    def delete_config_rule(self, rule_name):
        """
        Delete the specified rule.

        :param rule_name: The name of the rule to delete.
        """
        try:
            self.config_client.delete_config_rule(ConfigRuleName=rule_name)
            logger.info("Deleted rule %s.", rule_name)
        except ClientError:
            logger.exception("Couldn't delete rule %s.", rule_name)
            raise
```
+  For API details, see [DeleteConfigRule](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/boto3/config-2014-11-12/DeleteConfigRule) in *Amazon SDK for Python (Boto3) API Reference*. 

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**SDK for SAP ABAP**  
 There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the [Amazon Code Examples Repository](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/tree/main/sap-abap/services/cfs#code-examples). 

```
    lo_cfs->deleteconfigrule( iv_rule_name ).
    MESSAGE 'Deleted AWS Config rule.' TYPE 'I'.
```
+  For API details, see [DeleteConfigRule](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/sdk-for-sap-abap/v1/api/latest/index.html) in *Amazon SDK for SAP ABAP API reference*. 

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