Modifying destination membership at runtime

You might encounter situations where you have to add or remove log senders from a destination that you own. You can use the PutDestinationPolicy action on your destination with new access policy. In the following example, a previously added account 111111111111 is stopped from sending any more log data, and account 333333333333 is enabled.

1. Fetch the policy that is currently associated with the destination testDestination and make a note of the AccessPolicy:

   aws logs describe-destinations \
       --destination-name-prefix "testFirehoseDestination"
   
   {
       "destinations": [
           {
               "destinationName": "testFirehoseDestination",
               "targetArn": "arn:aws:firehose:us-east-1:222222222222:deliverystream/my-delivery-stream",
               "roleArn": "arn:aws:iam:: 222222222222:role/CWLtoKinesisFirehoseRole",
               "accessPolicy": "{\n  \"Version\" : \"2012-10-17\",\n  \"Statement\" : [\n    {\n      \"Sid\" : \"\",\n      \"Effect\" : \"Allow\",\n      \"Principal\" : {\n        \"AWS\" : \"111111111111 \"\n      },\n      \"Action\" : \"logs:PutSubscriptionFilter\",\n      \"Resource\" : \"arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:222222222222:destination:testFirehoseDestination\"\n    }\n  ]\n}\n\n",
               "arn": "arn:aws:logs:us-east-1: 222222222222:destination:testFirehoseDestination",
               "creationTime": 1612256124430
           }
       ]
   }
   

2. Update the policy to reflect that account 111111111111 is stopped, and that account 333333333333 is enabled. Put this policy in the ~/NewAccessPolicy.json file:

   {
     "Version" : "2012-10-17",
     "Statement" : [
       {
         "Sid" : "",
         "Effect" : "Allow",
         "Principal" : {
           "AWS" : "333333333333 "
         },
         "Action" : "logs:PutSubscriptionFilter",
         "Resource" : "arn:aws:logs:us-east-1:222222222222:destination:testFirehoseDestination"
       }
     ]
   }

3. Use the following command to associate the policy defined in the NewAccessPolicy.json file with the destination:

   aws logs put-destination-policy \
       --destination-name "testFirehoseDestination" \                                                                              
       --access-policy file://~/NewAccessPolicy.json

   This eventually disables the log events from account ID 111111111111. Log events from account ID 333333333333 start flowing to the destination as soon as the owner of account 333333333333 creates a subscription filter.