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Deleting a CloudTrail Trail

This example uses the delete_trail method 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.rb with the following code.

require 'aws-sdk-cloudtrail'  # v2: require 'aws-sdk'

if ARGV.length != 1
  puts 'You must supply the name of the trail to delete'
  exit 1
end

name = ARGV[0]

# Create client in us-west-2
client = Aws::CloudTrail::Client.new(region: 'us-west-2')

begin
  resp = client.delete_trail({
    name: name, # required
  })

  puts 'Successfully deleted CloudTrail ' + name + ' in us-west-2'
rescue StandardError => err
  puts 'Got error trying to delete trail ' + name + ':'
  puts err
  exit 1
end

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