AWS cloud formation Template- providing Tags for the stack in the template

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For billing, I want to use company specific Tags to the created resource in AWS. I am using a CloudFormation template to integrate our Elastic beanstalk instance and other project dependent resources. When I use the CloudFormation console to create a stack it asks me for Tags after parameters. I have to manually input the Tags for that stack. However is there a way to specify those Tags (Tags for the stack) within the CloudFormation template itself?  I know that the CloudFormation automatically tags the resources with the stack name. But I need company specific tags to bill separate departments. How to do It can anyone help me?

May 20, 2019 in AWS by Atul
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retagged May 22, 2019 by Kalgi 2,773 views

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AWS CloudFormation automates and simplifies the task of repeatedly and predictably creating groups of related resources that power your applications. So, while launching AWS CloudFormation, the required tags are applied to stack and are also propagated to the resources launched by the Stack.

There are four tagging categories: Technical, Automation, Business and Security

1)Technical tag contains:

Name : Identify resource.

Application ID:  Used to identify resource for an application

Application Role: Describe function of resource. E.g. Web Server, App Server, etc.

Cluster: Basically tells a configuration being shred across a network

Environment: Distinguish DEV,  TEST and PROD environment

Version: Tells application version

2) Automation tag contains:

Date/Time : Identify when application needs to be started, stopped and deleted

Opt in/out:  Identify whether this needs to be included during automation of activities like start, stop

Security: Describe what security feature is required

3) Business tag contains:

Owner: Identify the owner of resource

Cost center:  Identify the business unit

Customer: Describe who is target client

Project: Identify which project supports this resource

4) Security tag contains:

Confidentiality : Identify specific data confidentially being supported for resources

Compliance :  Specifies what compliance is required for this resource

Even if you want to include tag only for specific resources than this can also be done. For this while launching Amazon EC2 instances, tags should be included in the template:

Example:

"MyInstance" : {
    "Type" : "AWS::EC2::Instance",
    "Properties" : {
        "SecurityGroups" : [ { "Ref" : "MySecurityGroup" } ],
        "AvailabilityZone" : "us-west-2",
        "ImageId" : " ami-0756fbca465a59a30",
        "Volumes" : [
            { "VolumeId" : { "Ref" : "MyEBS" },
                       "Device" : "/test/sdk" }
        ],
        "Tags" : [
            {
                "Key" : "Phase",
                "Value" : "testing"
            }
       ]
    }
}
answered May 20, 2019 by ArchanaNagur
• 2,360 points

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