Add tags to Amazon EC2 resources using an Amazon SDK - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Add tags to Amazon EC2 resources using an Amazon SDK

The following code example shows how to add tags to Amazon EC2 resources.

C++
SDK for C++
Note

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    Aws::EC2::EC2Client ec2Client(clientConfiguration);

    Aws::EC2::Model::Tag nameTag;
    nameTag.SetKey("Name");
    nameTag.SetValue(instanceName);

    Aws::EC2::Model::CreateTagsRequest createRequest;
    createRequest.AddResources(instanceID);
    createRequest.AddTags(nameTag);

    Aws::EC2::Model::CreateTagsOutcome createOutcome = ec2Client.CreateTags(
            createRequest);
    if (!createOutcome.IsSuccess()) {
        std::cerr << "Failed to tag ec2 instance " << instanceID <<
                  " with name " << instanceName << ":" <<
                  createOutcome.GetError().GetMessage() << std::endl;
        return false;
    }

  • For API details, see CreateTags in Amazon SDK for C++ API Reference.

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