Customize email notifications for scheduled events that affect Amazon EC2 instances - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Customize email notifications for scheduled events that affect Amazon EC2 instances

You can customize scheduled event notifications to include tags in the email notification. This makes it easier to identify the affected resource (instances or Dedicated Hosts) and to prioritize actions for the upcoming event.

When you customize event notifications to include tags, you can choose to include:

  • All of the tags that are associated with the affected resource

  • Only specific tags that are associated with the affected resource

For example, suppose that you assign application, costcenter, project, and owner tags to all of your instances. You can choose to include all of the tags in event notifications. Alternatively, if you'd like to see only the owner and project tags in event notifications, then you can choose to include only those tags.

After you select the tags to include, the event notifications will include the resource ID (instance ID or Dedicated Host ID) and the tag key and value pairs that are associated with the affected resource.

Include tags in event notifications

The tags that you choose to include apply to all resources (instances and Dedicated Hosts) in the selected Region. To customize event notifications in other Regions, first select the required Region and then perform the following steps.

You can include tags in event notifications by using one of the following methods.

Console
To include tags in event notifications

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Events.

  3. Choose Actions, Manage event notifications.

  4. Turn on Include tags in event notifications.

  5. Do one of the following, depending on the tags that you want to include in event notifications:

    • To include all tags associated with the affected instance or Dedicated Host, select Include all tags.

    • To select the tags to include, select Choose the tags to include and then select or enter the tag keys.

  6. Choose Save.

AWS CLI
To include all tags in event notifications

Use the register-instance-event-notification-attributes AWS CLI command and set the IncludeAllTagsOfInstance parameter to true.

aws ec2 register-instance-event-notification-attributes \
    --instance-tag-attribute "IncludeAllTagsOfInstance=true"
To include specific tags in event notifications

Use the register-instance-event-notification-attributes AWS CLI command and specify the tags to include by using the InstanceTagKeys parameter.

aws ec2 register-instance-event-notification-attributes \
    --instance-tag-attribute 'InstanceTagKeys=["tag_key_1", "tag_key_2", "tag_key_3"]'

Remove tags from event notifications

You can remove tags from event notifications by using one of the following methods.

Console
To remove tags from event notifications

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Events.

  3. Choose Actions, Manage event notifications.

  4. To remove all tags from event notifications, turn off Include tags in event notifications.

  5. To remove specific tags from event notifications, choose the X) for the corresponding tag keys.

  6. Choose Save.

AWS CLI
To remove all tags from event notifications

Use the deregister-instance-event-notification-attributes AWS CLI command and set the IncludeAllTagsOfInstance parameter to false.

aws ec2 deregister-instance-event-notification-attributes \
    --instance-tag-attribute "IncludeAllTagsOfInstance=false"
To remove specific tags from event notifications

Use the deregister-instance-event-notification-attributes AWS CLI command and specify the tags to remove by using the InstanceTagKeys parameter.

aws ec2 deregister-instance-event-notification-attributes \
    --instance-tag-attribute 'InstanceTagKeys=["tag_key_1", "tag_key_2", "tag_key_3"]'

View the tags to be included in event notifications

You can view the tags that are to be included in event notifications by using one of the following methods.

Console
To view the tags that are to be included in event notifications

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Events.

  3. Choose Actions, Manage event notifications.

AWS CLI
To view the tags that are to be included in event notifications

Use the describe-instance-event-notification-attributes AWS CLI command.

aws ec2 describe-instance-event-notification-attributes