Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Delete Flow Log using the AWS CLI

by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: October 10 2023
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) articles
This assumes you have already configured the aws command line tool. If not, check out my article on Getting Started with the AWS CLI.
The aws ec2 describe-flow-logs command can be used to list the Flow Logs you have created.
aws ec2 describe-flow-logs
Something like this should be returned.
[
{
"CreationTime": "2023-10-05T01:50:24.089000+00:00",
"DeliverLogsPermissionArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/publishFlowLogs",
"DeliverLogsStatus": "SUCCESS",
"FlowLogId": "fl-00f4bbdec6dd110c6",
"FlowLogStatus": "ACTIVE",
"LogGroupName": "RDSOSMetrics",
"ResourceId": "vpc-0a9d4cb29e2748444",
"TrafficType": "ALL",
"LogDestinationType": "cloud-watch-logs",
"LogFormat": "${version} ${account-id} ${interface-id} ${srcaddr} ${dstaddr} ${srcport} ${dstport} ${protocol} ${packets} ${bytes} ${start} ${end} ${action} ${log-status}",
"Tags": [],
"MaxAggregationInterval": 600
}
]
Then the aws ec2 delete-flow-logs command can be used to delete the Flow Log.
aws ec2 delete-flow-logs --flow-log-id fl-00f4bbdec6dd110c6
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