putConfigurationRecorder

Creates or updates the customer managed configuration recorder.

You can use this operation to create a new customer managed configuration recorder or to update the roleARN and the recordingGroup for an existing customer managed configuration recorder.

To start the customer managed configuration recorder and begin recording configuration changes for the resource types you specify, use the StartConfigurationRecorder operation.

For more information, see Working with the Configuration Recorder in the Config Developer Guide.

One customer managed configuration recorder per account per Region

You can create only one customer managed configuration recorder for each account for each Amazon Web Services Region.

Default is to record all supported resource types, excluding the global IAM resource types

If you have not specified values for the recordingGroup field, the default for the customer managed configuration recorder is to record all supported resource types, excluding the global IAM resource types: AWS::IAM::Group, AWS::IAM::Policy, AWS::IAM::Role, and AWS::IAM::User.

Tags are added at creation and cannot be updated

PutConfigurationRecorder is an idempotent API. Subsequent requests won’t create a duplicate resource if one was already created. If a following request has different tags values, Config will ignore these differences and treat it as an idempotent request of the previous. In this case, tags will not be updated, even if they are different.

Use TagResource and UntagResource to update tags after creation.