Adding tags to Amazon ECS resources - Amazon Elastic Container Service
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Adding tags to Amazon ECS resources

You can tag new or existing tasks, services, task definitions, or clusters. For information about tagging your container instances, see Adding tags to an Amazon ECS container instance.

Warning

Do not add personally identifiable information (PII) or other confidential or sensitive information in tags. Tags are accessible to many Amazon services, including billing. Tags are not intended to be used for private or sensitive data.

You can use the following resources to specify tags when you create the resource.

Task

Console

Amazon CLI

API Action

Run one or more tasks.

Running an application as an Amazon ECS task

run-task

RunTask

Create a service.

Creating an Amazon ECS service using the console

create-service

CreateService

Create a task set.

Deploy Amazon ECS services using a third-party controller

create-task-set

CreateTaskSet

Register a task definition.

 Creating an Amazon ECS task definition using the console

register-task-definition

RegisterTaskDefinition

Create a cluster.

Creating an Amazon ECS cluster for the Fargate launch type

create-cluster

CreateCluster

Run one or more container instances.

Launching an Amazon ECS Linux container instance

run-instances

RunInstances

You can add or delete tags that are associated with your clusters, services, tasks, and task definitions directly from the resource's page.

To modify a tag for an individual resource

  1. Open the console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ecs/v2.

  2. From the navigation bar, select the Amazon Web Services Region to use.

  3. In the navigation pane, select a resource type (for example, Clusters).

  4. Select the resource from the resource list, choose the Tags tab, and then choose Manage tags.

  5. Configure your tags.

    [Add a tag] Choose Add tag, and then do the following:

    • For Key, enter the key name.

    • For Value, enter the key value.

  6. Choose Save.

You can add or overwrite one or more tags by using the Amazon CLI or an API.