Deleting your configuration recorders - Amazon Config
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Deleting your configuration recorders

You must use the Amazon CLI to delete the customer managed configuration recorder. You can use Amazon Config console or the Amazon CLI to delete a service-linked configuration recorder.

To delete the customer managed configuration recorder (CLI)

Use the delete-configuration-recorder command:

$ aws configservice delete-configuration-recorder --configuration-recorder-name default
To delete a service-linked configuration recorder (Console)

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

  2. Choose Settings in the navigation pane.

  3. On the Service-linked recorders tab, choose a service-linked configuration recorders on the Service-linked recorders tab, and then choose Delete. When prompted, choose Delete.

To delete a service-linked configuration recorder (CLI)

Use the delete-service-linked-configuration-recorder command:

This command uses the --service-principal field.

$ aws configservice delete-service-linked-configuration-recorder --service-principal "The service principal of the Amazon Web Services service for the service-linked configuration recorder that you want to delete"