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Tag - AWS Directory Service

Tag

Metadata assigned to a directory consisting of a key-value pair.

Contents

Key

Required name of the tag. The string value can be Unicode characters and cannot be prefixed with "aws:". The string can contain only the set of Unicode letters, digits, white-space, '_', '.', '/', '=', '+', '-', ':', '@'(Java regex: "^([\\p{L}\\p{Z}\\p{N}_.:/=+\\-]*)$").

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^([\p{L}\p{Z}\p{N}_.:/=+\-@]*)$

Required: Yes

Value

The optional value of the tag. The string value can be Unicode characters. The string can contain only the set of Unicode letters, digits, white-space, '_', '.', '/', '=', '+', '-', ':', '@' (Java regex: "^([\\p{L}\\p{Z}\\p{N}_.:/=+\\-]*)$").

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: ^([\p{L}\p{Z}\p{N}_.:/=+\-@]*)$

Required: Yes

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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