How to Manage Your AWS Resources Effectively with Tags
Aleksandar Nenov
Cloud Technology Pre-Sales Consultant | Bridging Tech and Business
Tags are simple labels you can assign to many of your AWS resources to store information about them. Tags can help you organize, monitor, manage, and secure your resources more effectively.
Tags can help you organize your AWS resources by allowing you to:
- Filter and search for resources based on their tags. For example, you can use tags to find all the resources that belong to a specific project or environment.
- Monitor your costs and usage by tagging your resources with relevant dimensions, such as application, department, or project. You can use AWS Cost Explorer or AWS Budgets to analyze your costs and usage by tagging and identifying opportunities for optimization.
- Manage your resources more efficiently by using tags to automate tasks such as backup, patching, scaling, or termination. You can use AWS services such as AWS Systems Manager, AWS Backup, or AWS Auto Scaling to perform actions based on tag values.
- Secure your resources using tags to control access, enforce compliance, and detect anomalies. You can use AWS services such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Config, or Amazon GuardDuty to apply policies, rules, or alerts based on tags.
AWS Tagging use cases:
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To implement a successful tagging strategy for your AWS resources, you should follow some best practices, such as:
- Use a standardized and consistent tag format across all resource types. For example, use the same case, delimiter, and spelling for your tag keys and values.
- Define the tag dimensions that support your business needs and goals. For example, consider using tags for the resource name, owner, purpose, environment, cost center, security level, or compliance status.
- Use automated tools to help you create, apply, and manage your tags. For example, AWS Tag Editor or a third-party AWS Tag Manager service can edit tags across multiple resources and regions in a single interface. You can also use AWS CloudFormation or AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to create templates with tags for your resources.
Tagging is a powerful way to organize and manage your AWS resources. By assigning key-value pairs to your resources, you can effortlessly search, filter, and report on them based on different criteria. Tagging enables you to implement cloud financial management and automation strategies for your AWS environment.
For example, you can use tagging to answer questions like:
Cloud Technology Pre-Sales Consultant | Bridging Tech and Business
1 年Jonathan M., Thank you! I quickly checked what makes additionally Azul Platform Prime (as performance tuned JVM), a cost efficient option for Amazon Web Services (AWS) compared to OpenJDK is: ?? The support for AWS Graviton 2 and 3 processors Instances with superior performance and combined with lower AWS Graviton price point delivers definitely a cost-effective way to run Java workloads on AWS I like these numbers ?? ?? Azul Platform Prime is 26% faster on AWS Graviton 3 vs. OpenJDK and 18% faster on Graviton 2 vs. OpenJDK. https://www.azul.com/blog/azul-platform-prime-delivers-superior-performance-on-aws-graviton-instances/ Do you have some performance benchmarks of Azul Platform Prime vs. Amazon Correto (AWS build of OpenJDK that also supports graviton 2 and 3)?
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1 年What if you could also move up to the application layer and enable further cloud cost optimisation of up to 40% on Java based applications such as Solr, Kafka, Elastic and Spark? Just by implementing a performance tuned JVM in Azul Platform Prime. Have the benchmarks and happy to share if you like?