Updating the Delivery Channel - Amazon Config
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Updating the Delivery Channel

When you update the delivery channel, you can set the following options:

  • The Amazon S3 bucket where Amazon Config sends configuration snapshots and configuration history files.

  • How often Amazon Config delivers configuration snapshots to your Amazon S3 bucket.

  • The Amazon SNS topic to which Amazon Config sends notifications about configuration changes.

You can use the Amazon Config console to set the Amazon S3 bucket and the Amazon SNS topic for your delivery channel. For steps to manage these settings, see Setting Up Amazon Config with the Console.

The console does not provide options to rename the delivery channel, set the frequency for configuration snapshots, or delete the delivery channel. To do these tasks, you must use the Amazon CLI, the Amazon Config API, or one of the Amazon SDKs.

The following code examples show how to use PutDeliveryChannel.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To create a delivery channel

The following command provides the settings for the delivery channel as JSON code:

aws configservice put-delivery-channel --delivery-channel file://deliveryChannel.json

The deliveryChannel.json file specifies the delivery channel attributes:

{
    "name": "default",
    "s3BucketName": "config-bucket-123456789012",
    "snsTopicARN": "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:config-topic",
    "configSnapshotDeliveryProperties": {
        "deliveryFrequency": "Twelve_Hours"
    }
}

This example sets the following attributes:

name - The name of the delivery channel. By default, Amazon Config assigns the name default to a new delivery channel.You cannot update the delivery channel name with the put-delivery-channel command. For the steps to change the name, see Renaming the Delivery Channel.s3BucketName - The name of the Amazon S3 bucket to which Amazon Config delivers configuration snapshots and configuration history files.If you specify a bucket that belongs to another Amazon account, that bucket must have policies that grant access permissions to Amazon Config. For more information, see Permissions for the Amazon S3 Bucket.

snsTopicARN - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon SNS topic to which Amazon Config sends notifications about configuration changes.If you choose a topic from another account, the topic must have policies that grant access permissions to Amazon Config. For more information, see Permissions for the Amazon SNS Topic.

configSnapshotDeliveryProperties - Contains the deliveryFrequency attribute, which sets how often Amazon Config delivers configuration snapshots and how often it invokes evaluations for periodic Config rules.

If the command succeeds, Amazon Config returns no output. To verify the settings of your delivery channel, run the describe-delivery-channels command.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example changes the deliveryFrequency property of an existing delivery channel.

Write-CFGDeliveryChannel -ConfigSnapshotDeliveryProperties_DeliveryFrequency TwentyFour_Hours -DeliveryChannelName default -DeliveryChannel_S3BucketName config-bucket-NA -DeliveryChannel_S3KeyPrefix my

  • For API details, see PutDeliveryChannel in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

(Optional) You can use the describe-delivery-channels command to verify that the delivery channel settings are updated:

$ aws configservice describe-delivery-channels
{
    "DeliveryChannels": [
        {
            "configSnapshotDeliveryProperties": {
                "deliveryFrequency": "Twelve_Hours"
            },
            "snsTopicARN": "arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:config-topic",
            "name": "default",
            "s3BucketName": "config-bucket-123456789012"
        }
    ]
}

The following code examples show how to use DescribeDeliveryChannels.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To get details about the delivery channel

The following command returns details about the delivery channel:

aws configservice describe-delivery-channels

Output:

{
    "DeliveryChannels": [
        {
            "snsTopicARN": "arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:123456789012:config-topic",
            "name": "default",
            "s3BucketName": "config-bucket-123456789012"
        }
    ]
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example retrieves the delivery channel for the region and displays details.

Get-CFGDeliveryChannel -Region eu-west-1 | Select-Object Name, S3BucketName, S3KeyPrefix, @{N="DeliveryFrequency";E={$_.ConfigSnapshotDeliveryProperties.DeliveryFrequency}}

Output:

Name    S3BucketName               S3KeyPrefix DeliveryFrequency
----    ------------               ----------- -----------------
default config-bucket-NA my          TwentyFour_Hours