Generating an assessment report

When you're ready to generate your assessment report, follow these steps.

Prerequisites

Before you can generate an assessment report, you must add at least one piece of evidence to your assessment report. You can either add an entire evidence folder, or you can add individual evidence items from within a folder.

To ensure that your assessment report is generated successfully, review our Configuration tips for your assessment report destination.

Procedure

To generate an assessment report

1. Open the AWS Audit Manager console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/auditmanager/home.

2. In the left navigation pane, choose Assessments.

3. Choose the name of the assessment that you want to generate an assessment report for.

4. Choose the Assessment report selection tab, and then choose Generate assessment report.

   Tip

   If Generate assessment report is greyed out, this means that no evidence was added to the assessment report yet.

5. In the pop-up window, provide a name and description for the assessment report, and review the assessment report details.

6. Choose Generate assessment report and wait a few minutes while your assessment report is generated.

7. Find and download your assessment report from the Download center page of the Audit Manager console.

   • Alternatively, you can go to your assessment report destination S3 bucket and download the assessment report from there.

Next steps

After you generate an assessment report, you can learn more about the following:

• Find and download your assessment report – Learn how to download your assessment report from the download center or from Amazon S3.

• Explore your assessment report – Learn how to navigate an assessment report and explore its contents.

• Validate your assessment report – Learn how to use the ValidateAssessmentReportIntegrity API operation to validate your assessment report.

• Delete an unwanted assessment report – Learn how to delete an unwanted report from the download center or from Amazon S3.

• Generate assessment reports from evidence finder – Learn how to generate assessment reports from your evidence finder search results.

Additional resources

To find answers to common questions and issues, see Troubleshooting assessment report issues in the Troubleshooting section of this guide.