Resources and tags - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Resources and tags

Amazon EC2 provides different resources that you can create and use. Some of these resources include images, instances, volumes, and snapshots. When you create a resource, we assign the resource a unique resource ID.

Some resources can be tagged with values that you define, to help you organize and identify them.

The following topics describe resources and tags, and how you can work with them.