Posted On: Nov 15, 2018
You can now tag your Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) resources such as services, task definitions, tasks, clusters and container instances . This will enable you to better allocate cost, improve visibility into your workloads, easily search and identify your containerized applications, implement programmatic infrastructure management actions, and define fine-grained resource-level permissions.
Many ECS customers are managing thousands of resources such as task definitions, services, tasks, and clusters, spread across different teams, products, business units, and environments. Without tagging, it was difficult to manage the entire infrastructure and the underlying cost in a systematic manner. Now, you can tag your ECS resources at creation or at runtime using the ECS APIs, Resource Groups APIs and Console. ECS now provides detailed ECS Tasks usage data in the Cost & Usage Report, which customers can use to allocate the cost of the underlying EC2 instances.
To take advantage of tagging, you will need to opt-in to the new Amazon Resource Names (ARN) and resource identifiers (ID) format for tasks, container instances, and services. These new ARNs and IDs are necessary to introduce the new tagging functionality and all its underlying benefits.
Additional information about the new ARN and ID formats can be found in the documentation or in the FAQ. If you have questions, please reach out to your account team or contact Amazon Web Services Support on the community forums or through Amazon Web Services Premium Support. If you are ready to opt in, please visit the ECS page on your Amazon Web Services console. Resource tagging is currently not available in the GovCloud (US-East) region.