Tagging your Amazon IoT resources

To help you manage and organize your thing groups, thing types, topic rules, jobs, scheduled audits and security profiles you can optionally assign your own metadata to each of these resources in the form of tags. This section describes tags and shows you how to create them.

To help you manage your costs related to things, you can create billing groups that contain things. You can then assign tags that contain your metadata to each of these billing groups. This section also discusses billing groups and the commands available to create and manage them.

Tag basics

You can use tags to categorize your Amazon IoT resources in different ways (for example, by purpose, owner, or environment). This is useful when you have many resources of the same type — you can quickly identify a resource based on the tags you've assigned to it. Each tag consists of a key and optional value, both of which you define. For example, you can define a set of tags for your thing types that helps you track devices by type. We recommend that you create a set of tag keys that meets your needs for each kind of resource. Using a consistent set of tag keys makes it easier for you to manage your resources.

You can search for and filter resources based on the tags you add or apply. You can also use billing group tags to categorize and track your costs. You can also use tags to control access to your resources as described in Using tags with IAM policies.

For ease of use, the Tag Editor in the Amazon Management Console provides a central, unified way to create and manage your tags. For more information, see Working with Tag Editor in Working with the Amazon Management Console.

You can also work with tags using the Amazon CLI and the Amazon IoT API. You can associate tags with thing groups, thing types, topic rules, jobs, security profiles, policies, billing groups, and the packages and versions associated with things when you create them by using the Tags field in the following commands:

You can add, modify, or delete tags for existing resources that support tagging by using the following commands:

You can edit tag keys and values, and you can remove tags from a resource at any time. You can set the value of a tag to an empty string, but you can't set the value of a tag to null. If you add a tag that has the same key as an existing tag on that resource, the new value overwrites the old value. If you delete a resource, any tags associated with the resource are also deleted.

Tag restrictions and limitations

The following basic restrictions apply to tags: