Starting the customer managed configuration recorder - Amazon Config
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Starting the customer managed configuration recorder

You can use the Amazon Config console or the Amazon CLI start the customer managed configuration recorder.

To start the customer managed 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 Customer managed recorder tab, choose Start recording. When prompted, choose Confirm.

To start the customer managed configuration recorder (CLI)

Use the start-configuration-recorder command:

$ aws configservice start-configuration-recorder --configuration-recorder-name configRecorderName