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Starting the customer managed configuration recorder - AWS Config

Starting the customer managed configuration recorder

You can use the AWS Config console or the AWS CLI start the customer managed configuration recorder.

To start the customer managed configuration recorder (Console)

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Config console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/config/home.

  2. Choose Settings in the navigation pane.

  3. On the Customer managed recorder tab, choose Start recording. When prompted, choose Confirm.

To start the customer managed configuration recorder (CLI)

Use the start-configuration-recorder command:

$ aws configservice start-configuration-recorder --configuration-recorder-name configRecorderName