Managing tags with Tag Editor
After you find resources that you want to tag, you can add, remove, and edit the tags for some or all of your search results. Tag Editor shows you any tags that are attached to resources. It also shows you whether those tags were added in Tag Editor, by the resource's service console, or by using the API.
Important
Do not store personally identifiable information (PII) or other confidential or sensitive information in tags. We use tags to provide you with billing and administration services. Tags are not intended to be used for private or sensitive data.
Other ways to manage your tags
This topic discusses tagging resources by using Tag Editor in the Amazon Web Services Management Console. However, you can also manage the tags on your Amazon resources by using the following tools:
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You can type or script commands at your shell prompt by using the
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You can create and run PowerShell scripts by using the Amazon Resource Groups Tagging API in the Amazon Tools for PowerShell Core.
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You can create and run programs with any of the available Amazon SDKs by using the Resource groups tagging APIs, such as the tagging APIs for Python
or the tagging APIs for Java.
When you add, remove, or edit existing tags, you're changing tags only on those resources that you select in the results of your Find resources to tag query. You can select up to 500 resources on which to manage tags.