Treating the Mishmash of Missing Tag Resources in AWS using the Cloud Custodian (Part 1)

PART — 1

Now that your resources are up and running in the AWS cloud, it is very important to know what those resources are? Once you realize it, you’ve found yourself in a big mishmash of resources that are being stood up by your development team. This results in companies not knowing what’s been running and the associated costs.

In this three-part series, we will look at the various aspects of tagging resources and why it’s so important. As well as how to manage tagging correctly using the open-source tool, Cloud Custodian.

Why do you need to tag the resources?

The days are gone where you forecast and budget the number of servers you need with the amount of CPU power, memory, hard disk, interface card, OS, utilities, applications, and many other components. Don’t forget the months it takes for procurement to get the equipment and another couple of months for IT to provision and deploy into the data center. With Cloud, it is very clear that you can launch an instance with just a click of a few buttons and you have a very powerful machine with everything loaded and running.

This enables developers, engineers, and others in the organization to stand up any resources they…