# Deleting Conformance Packs for AWS Config
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You can use the AWS Config console or the AWS CLI to delete conformance packs.

## Considerations
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**Recommendation: Consider excluding the `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance` resource type from recording before deleting rules**

Deleting rules creates configuration items (CIs) for `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance` that can affect your costs for the configuration recorder. If you are deleting rules which evaluate a large number of resource types, this can lead to a spike in the number of CIs recorded.

To avoid the associated costs, you can opt to disable recording for the `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance` resource type before deleting rules, and re-enable recording after the rules have been deleted.

However, since deleting rules is an asynchronous process, it might take an hour or more to complete. During the time when recording is disabled for `AWS::Config::ResourceCompliance`, rule evaluations will not be recorded in the associated resource’s history.

## To delete a conformance pack
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#### [ Deleting Conformance Packs (Console) ]

1. To delete a conformance pack, select the conformance pack from the table.

1. Choose **Actions** and then choose **Delete**.

1. On the delete *conformance pack* dialog box, confirm if you would like to permanently delete this conformance pack. 
**Important**  
You cannot revert this action. When you delete a conformance pack, you delete all of the AWS Config rules and remediation actions in that conformance pack.

1. Enter **Delete** and choose **Delete**.

   On the **Conformance packs** page, you can see the deployment status as **Deleting** until the conformance pack is completely deleted.

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#### [ Deleting Conformance Packs (AWS CLI) ]

Enter the following command.

```
aws configservice delete-conformance-pack --conformance-pack-name MyConformancePack1
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If successful, the command runs with no additional output.

**Important**  
You cannot revert this action. When you delete a conformance pack, you delete all of the AWS Config rules and remediation actions in that conformance pack.

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