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Tagging categories

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Tagging categories - Tagging AWS Resources and Tag Editor

Companies that are most effective in their use of tags typically create business-relevant tag groupings to organize their resources along technical, business, and security dimensions. Companies that use automated processes to manage their infrastructure also include additional, automation-specific tags.

Technical tags Tags for automation Business tags Security tags

  • Name – Identify individual resources

  • Application ID – Identify resources that are related to a specific application

  • Application Role – Describe the function of a particular resource (such as web server, message broker, database)

  • Cluster – Identify resource farms that share a common configuration and perform a specific function for an application

  • Environment – Distinguish between development, test, and production resources

  • Version – Help distinguish between versions of resources or applications

  • Date/Time – Identify the date or time a resource should be started, stopped, deleted, or rotated

  • Opt in/Opt out – Indicate whether a resource should be included in an automated activity such as starting, stopping, or resizing instances

  • Security – Determine requirements, such as encryption or enabling of Amazon VPC flow logs; identify route tables or security groups that need extra scrutiny

  • Project – Identify projects that the resource supports

  • Owner – Identify who is responsible for the resource

  • Cost Center/Business Unit – Identify the cost center or business unit associated with a resource, typically for cost allocation and tracking

  • Customer – Identify a specific client that a particular group of resources serves

  • Confidentiality – An identifier for the specific data confidentiality level a resource supports

  • Compliance – An identifier for workloads that must adhere to specific compliance requirements
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