Tag
Adds metadata, in the form of a key:value pair, to the specified resource.
For example, you could add the tag Department:Sales to a resource to
indicate that it pertains to your organization's sales department. You can also use tags
for tag-based access control.
To learn more about tagging, see Tagging resources.
Contents
- Key
-
The first part of a key:value pair that forms a tag associated with a given resource. For example, in the tag
Department:Sales, the key is 'Department'.Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.
Required: Yes
- Value
-
The second part of a key:value pair that forms a tag associated with a given resource. For example, in the tag
Department:Sales, the value is 'Sales'.Note that you can set the value of a tag to an empty string, but you can't set the value of a tag to null. Omitting the tag value is the same as using an empty string.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.
Required: Yes
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: