AWS - Resource Groups & Tags

• Tags:
• Key value pairs attached to AWS resources.
• Tags are Metadata about resources.
• Tags can sometimes be inherited. Eg. Autoscaling, Cloudformation and Elastic Beanstalk.
• Tag names are case sensitive.
• Resource Group:
• Resource groups make it easy to group the resources using the tags that are attached to them.
• Contain information such as:
• Name
• Region
• Health checks.
• EC2: Public/Private IP addresses.
• ELB: Port configuration.
• RDS: Database engine etc.
• Resource Group Types:
• Classic Resource Groups:
• Are global
• Eg. See all resources across region for a team.
• System Manager
• Per region basis
• Execute commands against resources in a System manager Resource group.