You can use the AWS Config console or the AWS SDKs to delete your rules.
Considerations
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.
Deleting Rules (Console)
The Rules page shows your rules and their current compliance results in a table. The result for each rule is Evaluating... until AWS Config finishes evaluating your resources against the rule. You can update the results with the refresh button. When AWS Config finishes evaluations, you can see the rules and resource types that are compliant or noncompliant. For more information, see Viewing Compliance Information and Evaluation Results for your AWS Resources with AWS Config.
Note
AWS Config evaluates only the resource types that it is recording. For example, if you add the cloudtrail-enabled rule but don't record the CloudTrail trail resource type, AWS Config can't evaluate whether the trails in your account are compliant or noncompliant. For more information, see Recording AWS Resources with AWS Config.
To delete a rule
Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Config console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/config/
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In the AWS Management Console menu, verify that the region selector is set to a region that supports AWS Config rules. For the list of supported regions, see AWS Config Regions and Endpoints in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.
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In the left navigation, choose Rules.
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Choose a rule from the table that you want to delete.
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From the Actions dropdown list, choose Delete rule.
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When prompted, type "Delete" (case-sensitive) and then choose Delete.
Deleting Rules
(AWS SDKs)
The following code examples show how to use DeleteConfigRule.
