aws ec2 create-tags

Adds or overwrites only the specified tags for the specified Amazon EC2 resource or resources. AWS CLI reference

3 examples 3 options Its page in the AWS CLI reference

Examples

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Example 1: To add a tag to a resource

The following create-tags example adds the tag Stack=production to the specified image, or overwrites an existing tag for the AMI where the tag key is Stack.

aws ec2 create-tags --resources ami-1234567890abcdef0 --tags Key=Stack,Value=productionIdentify

--resourcesThe IDs of the resources, separated by spaces.

--tagsThe tags.

This command produces no output.

Example 2: To add tags to multiple resources

The following create-tags example adds (or overwrites) two tags for an AMI and an instance. One of the tags has a key (webserver) but no value (value is set to an empty string). The other tag has a key (stack) and a value (Production).

aws ec2 create-tags --resources ami-1a2b3c4d i-1234567890abcdef0 --tags Key=webserver,Value=   Key=stack,Value=Production

Identify

--resourcesThe IDs of the resources, separated by spaces.

--tagsThe tags.

This command produces no output.

Example 3: To add tags containing special characters

The following create-tags examples add the tag [Group]=test for an instance. The square brackets ([ and ]) are special characters, and must be escaped. The following examples also use the line continuation character appropriate for each environment.

If you are using Windows, surround the element that has special characters with double quotes ("), and then precede each double quote character with a backslash () as follows.

aws ec2 create-tags ^Identify

--resources i-1234567890abcdef0 ^

--tags Key=\"[Group]\",Value=test

This command produces no output.

If you are using Windows PowerShell, surround the element the value that has special characters with double quotes ("), precede each double quote character with a backslash (), and then surround the entire key and value structure with single quotes (') as follows.

aws ec2 create-tags `Identify

--resources i-1234567890abcdef0 `

--tags 'Key=\"[Group]\",Value=test'

This command produces no output.

If you are using Linux or OS X, surround the element that has special characters with double quotes ("), and then surround the entire key and value structure with single quotes (') as follows.

aws ec2 create-tags --resources i-1234567890abcdef0 --tags 'Key="[Group]",Value=test'Identify

--resourcesThe IDs of the resources, separated by spaces.

--tagsThe tags.

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Tag your Amazon EC2 resources in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Options

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--dry-runChecks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response.

--resourcesThe IDs of the resources, separated by spaces.

--tagsThe tags.