Check for non-compliant resources

Launch an EC2 with compliant tags and one with noncompliant tags

  1. Navigate to the EC2 service in the navigation bar and click Launch instance

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  1. Select the Amazon Linux Free tier eligible AMI

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  1. Select the free tier eligible t2.micro instance type and click Review and Launch

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  1. Click “Edit tags” on the right side of the page across from the Tags dropdown and Click Add Tag

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  1. Add the Tag Key (environment) and Tag Value (uat) and click Review and Launch

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  1. On the Review Instance Launch page click Launch

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  1. Select Key Pair and click Launch Instances. Repeat steps 1 - 6 to launch an instance with the Tag Key (environment) and Tag Value (unknown)

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View non-compliant resources

  1. Navigate to the Resource Groups and Tag Editor service in the navigation bar and click Tag Policies in the left-hand panel

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  1. Click “This AWS account”

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  1. You should now see the tag policies you created, and the non-compliant resources (with tag value “research”). You can also filter compliance results by region. Please note, that it might take a couple of minutes for newly created resources to be included in results.

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