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

2. Select the Amazon Linux Free tier eligible AMI

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

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

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

6. On the Review Instance Launch page click Launch

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

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

2. Click “This AWS account”

3. 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.