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.

=begin
###############################################################################

Purpose:
  Deletes a trail in AWS CloudTrail.

Prerequisites:
  - You must have an AWS account. For more information, see "How do I create
    and activate a new Amazon Web Services account" on the AWS Premium Support
    website.
  - This code uses default AWS access credentials. For more information, see
    "Configuring the AWS SDK for Ruby" in the AWS SDK for Ruby Developer Guide.

Running the code:
  To run this code, use RSpec. For example:

  rspec aws-ruby-sdk-cloudtrail-example-delete-trail.rb -f d

Additional information:
  - As an AWS best practice, grant this code least privilege, or only the 
    permissions required to perform a task. For more information, see 
    "Grant Least Privilege," in the AWS Identity and Access Management 
    User Guide.

See the complete example on GitHub.