Deleting a CloudTrail Trail

This example uses the DeleteTrail operation to delete a CloudTrail trail in the us-west-2 region. It requires one input, the name of the trail.

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Create the file delete_trail.go. Add the following statements to import the Go and AWS SDK for Go packages used in the example.

import (
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
    "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/cloudtrail"

    "flag"
    "fmt"
)

Get the name of the trail. If the trail name is missing, display an error message and exit.

trailNamePtr := flag.String("n", "", "The name of the trail to delete")

flag.Parse()

if *trailNamePtr == "" {
    fmt.Println("You must supply a trail name")
    return
}

Initialize the session that the SDK uses to load credentials from the shared credentials file .aws/credentials in your home folder and create the client.

sess := session.Must(session.NewSessionWithOptions(session.Options{
    SharedConfigState: session.SharedConfigEnable,
}))

Create a CloudTrail client and call DeleteTrail with the trail name. If an error occurs, print the error and exit. If no error occurs, print a success message.

svc := cloudtrail.New(sess)

_, err := svc.DeleteTrail(&cloudtrail.DeleteTrailInput{Name: aws.String(*trailNamePtr)})
if err != nil {
    fmt.Println("Got error calling CreateTrail:")
    fmt.Println(err.Error())
    return
}

fmt.Println("Successfully deleted trail", *trailNamePtr)

See the complete example on GitHub.