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Cancel an export task - Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Cancel an export task

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You can cancel an export task if it's in a PENDING or RUNNING state.

To cancel an export task using the AWS CLI

At a command prompt, use the following cancel-export-task command:

aws logs --profile CWLExportUser cancel-export-task --task-id "cda45419-90ea-4db5-9833-aade86253e66"

You can use the describe-export-tasks command to verify that the task was canceled successfully.

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