Removing Amazon Shield Advanced protection from an Amazon resource - Amazon WAF, Amazon Firewall Manager, and Amazon Shield Advanced
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Removing Amazon Shield Advanced protection from an Amazon resource

You can remove Amazon Shield Advanced protection from any of your Amazon resources at any time.

Important

Deleting an Amazon resource doesn't remove the resource from Amazon Shield Advanced. You must also remove the protection on the resource from Amazon Shield Advanced, as described in this procedure.

Remove Amazon Shield Advanced protection from an Amazon resource
  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon WAF & Shield console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/wafv2/.

  2. In the Amazon Shield navigation pane, choose Protected resources.

  3. In the Protections tab, select the resources whose protections you want to remove.

  4. Choose Delete protections.

    1. If you have an Amazon CloudWatch alarm configured for a protection, you are given the option to delete the alarm along with the protection. If you choose not to delete the alarm at this point, you can instead delete it later using the CloudWatch console.

    Note

    For protections that have an Amazon Route 53 health check configured, if you add the protection again later, the protection still includes the health check.

The preceding steps remove Amazon Shield Advanced protection from specific Amazon resources. They don't cancel your Amazon Shield Advanced subscription. You will continue to be charged for the service. For information about your Amazon Shield Advanced subscription, contact the Amazon Web Services Support Center.

Removing a CloudWatch alarm from your Shield Advanced protections

To remove a CloudWatch alarm from your Shield Advanced protections, do one of the following: