# Edit a case
Edit a case

 Choose **Edit** to change the details of a case. 

 **For AWS supported and self-managed cases:** 

 You can change the following case details after a case has been created: 
+  Title 
+  Description 

 **For AWS supported cases only:** 

 You can change the additional fields:  
+  **Request type:** 
  +  **Active Security Incident**: This type is for urgent incident response support and services.   
  +  **Investigations**: Investigations allow you to get support for perceived security incidents where the AWS Security Incident Response engineers can support in log dive and secondary confirmation of the security event. 
+ **Start date estimate**: Change this field if you received indicators for this case that pre-date the initial provided start date. Consider providing additional details in regards to the newly detected indicator in the description field or add a comment in the communications tab.