Filter Amazon EC2 resources by tag - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Filter Amazon EC2 resources by tag

After you add tags, you can filter your Amazon EC2 resources based tag keys and tag values.

Console
To filter resources by tag

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ec2/.

  2. In the navigation pane, select a resource type (for example, Instances).

  3. Choose the search field.

  4. In the list, under Tags, choose the tag key.

  5. Choose the corresponding tag value from the list.

  6. When you are finished, remove the filter.

For more information about using filters in the Amazon EC2 console, see Find your Amazon EC2 resources.

Amazon CLI
To describe resources of a single type with the specified tag key

Add the following filter to a describe command to describe the resources of that type with a Stack tag, regardless of the value of the tag.

--filters Name=tag-key,Values=Stack
To describe resources of a single type with the specified tag

Add the following filter to a describe command to describe the resources of that type with the tag Stack=production.

--filters Name=tag:Stack,Values=production
To describe resources of a single type with the specified tag value

Add the following filter to a describe command to describe the resources of that type with a tag with the value production, regardless of the tag key.

--filters Name=tag-value,Values=production
To describe all EC2 resources with the specified tag

Add the following filter to the describe-tags command to describe all EC2 resources with the tag Stack=test.

--filters Name=key,Values=Stack Name=value,Values=test
PowerShell
To filter resources of a single type by tag key

Add the following filter to a Get cmdlet to describe the resources of that type with a Stack tag, regardless of the value of the tag.

-Filter @{Name="tag-key"; Values="Stack"}
To filter resources of a single type by tag

Add the following filter to a Get cmdlet to describe the resources of that type with the tag Stack=production.

-Filter @{Name="tag:Stack"; Values="production"}
To filter resources of a single type by tag value

Add the following filter to a Get cmdlet to describe the resources of that type with a tag with the value production, regardless of the value of the tag key.

-Filter @{Name="tag-value"; Values="production"}
To filter all EC2 resources by tag

Add the following filter to the Get-EC2Tag cmdlet to describe all EC2 resources with the tag Stack=test.

-Filter @{Name="tag:Stack"; Values="test"}