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Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags

Posted on: Jul 16, 2026

Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags in events delivered to all destinations including Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and Amazon Lambda. System-generated tags are metadata labels attached to your bucket by Amazon services. You can use these tags to filter events from thousands of buckets with a single EventBridge rule, instead of listing each bucket name individually.

To get started, enable S3 Event Notifications on your general purpose buckets through the Amazon Management Console, Amazon SDK, or Amazon CLI. If Amazon services like Amazon CloudFormation have already applied system-generated tags to your buckets, S3 automatically includes them in new event notifications. System-generated tags in S3 Event Notifications are available at no additional cost in all Regions including Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia), operated by NWCD and require no changes to existing configurations. To learn more, visit the S3 Event Notifications documentation.