Resources and tags - Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Resources and tags

Amazon ECS resources are assigned an Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and a unique resource identifier (ID). These resources include task definitions, clusters, tasks, services, and container instances. You can tag these resources with values that you define to help you organize and identify them.

The following topics provide an overview about these resources and tags and describe how you can use tags.

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