Disabling evidence finder - AWS Audit Manager

Disabling evidence finder

If you no longer want to use evidence finder, you can disable the feature at any time.

Follow these steps to learn how to disable evidence finder. Pay close attention to the prerequisites, as you'll need specific permissions to delete the event data store in CloudTrail Lake that was created when you enabled evidence finder.

Prerequisites

Required permissions to disable evidence finder

To disable evidence finder, you need permissions to delete an event data store in CloudTrail Lake. For an example policy that you can use, see Permissions to disable evidence finder.

If you need help with permissions, contact your AWS administrator. If you’re an AWS administrator, you can attach the required permission statement to an IAM policy.

Procedure

You can complete this task using the Audit Manager console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the Audit Manager API.

Warning

Disabling evidence finder deletes the CloudTrail Lake event data store that Audit Manager created. As a result, you can’t re-enable the feature. To re-use evidence finder after you disable it, you must disable AWS Audit Manager, and then re-enable the service completely.

Audit Manager console
To disable evidence finder on the Audit Manager console
  1. In the Evidence finder section of the Audit Manager settings page, choose Disable.

  2. In the pop-up window that appears, enter Yes to confirm your decision.

  3. Choose Request to disable.

AWS CLI
To disable evidence finder in the AWS CLI

Run the update-settings command with the --no-evidence-finder-enabled parameter.

aws auditmanager update-settings --no-evidence-finder-enabled
Audit Manager API
To disable evidence finder using the API

Call the UpdateSettings operation and use the evidenceFinderEnabled parameter.

For more information, choose the previous links to read more in the Audit Manager API Reference. This includes information about how to use this operation and parameter in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs.

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