Adding and removing tags for environments

You can add tags to environments to help organize and search for the resources you care most about.

Use tags as search terms to quickly find environments. For example, you can add a webserver tag to all of the environments that contain a web server. You can further add tags to indicate what webserver is installed: apache, nginx, tux, etc.

  • Tags are single-value strings, well-suited for adding metadata to resources and for searching and filtering.
  • Use tags for common attributes that you care about across your environments.
  • Use simple and easy to read text strings for tags.
  • Tags have a 255-character limit.
  • A single environment can have a maximum of 1,000 tags.
  • Tags aren’t case-sensitive (for example, ABCD, abcd, and aBcD are treated as the same value).
  • Tags can’t include semicolon (;) or comma (,) characters.

Tags don’t appear in usage reports.

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Adding tags to an environment

To add a tag to an environment
  1. In the navigation bar, click Environments
  2. In the Manage Environments and VMs page, click the Environments tab.
  3. Click the environment you want to edit.
  4. Under the environment name, next to Tags, click tags.

    tag details

  5. Type the name of the tag you want to add.

    You can add multiple tags, separated by commas.

  6. When you’re done adding tags, click check or press the Enter key.

Adding tags to multiple environments

To add a tag to multiple environments
  1. In the navigation bar, click Environments
  2. In the Manage Environments and VMs page, click the Environments tab.
  3. Click multiple-select, and then select the environments you want to edit.
  4. Click add labels. The Add Labels dialog displays.

    add tags

  5. In the Tags field, type the name of the tag you want to add.

    You can add multiple tags, separated by commas.

  6. When you’re done adding tags, click save (Save).

Removing tags from an environment

To remove a tag from an environment
  1. In the navigation bar, click Environments
  2. In the Manage Environments and VMs page, click the Environments tab.
  3. Click the environment you want to edit.
  4. Under the environment name, next to Tags, click edit.

    environment details overview

  5. Click remove on the tag you want to delete.
  6. When you’re done deleting tags, click check or press the Enter key.