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Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Add Tags to Resource
  • 16 Mar 2023
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Add Tags to Resource

  • Updated on 16 Mar 2023
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This Enforcement Action was previously named Add Tag to Amazon EC2 Instance.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)- Add Tags to Resource takes the saved query supplied as a trigger (or devices that have been selected in the asset table) and adds the tags to those Amazon Resource​s.

See Creating Enforcement Sets to learn more about adding Enforcement Actions to Enforcement Sets.

General Settings

  • Enforcement Set name (required) - The name of the Enforcement Set. A default value is added by Axonious. You can change the name according to your needs.
  • Add description (optional) - Click to add a description of the Enforcement Set. It is recommended to describe what the Enforcement Set does.
  • Run action on assets matching following query (required) - Select an asset category and a query. The Enforcement Action will be run on the assets that match the query parameters.
  • Action name - The name of the Main action. A default value is added by Axonious. You can change the name according to your needs.
  • Configure Action Conditions - Toggle on to enter a condition statement. See Configuring Enforcement Action Conditions to learn more about condition statement syntax.

Connection Settings

  1. Use attached IAM role (required)
    • If enabled, Axonius will use the attached IAM role / instance profile.
    • If disabled, Axonius will use the supplied account details in the AWS Access Key ID and AWS Access Key Secret.
  2. AWS Access Key ID and AWS Access Key Secret (optional) - The credentials for an account that has the Required Permissions to remove tags.
    • If supplied, Axonius will use the supplied account details.
    • If not supplied, Axonius will use the attached IAM role / instance profile.
  3. Proxy (optional) - An optional https proxy.

Action Settings

  1. Tag keys (required) - A semicolon (;) separated list of tag keys to be added. A tag key must not begin with "aws:".
  2. Target AWS assets (optional) - Select the device types to which the tags will be added. Select all that apply.

Required Permissions

The values supplied in AWS Access Key ID and AWS Access Key Secret or the attached IAM role account must have the proper permissions to add tags to resources.

The required permissions are:

  • tag:GetResources
  • tag:TagResources
  • tag:UntagResources
  • tag:getTagKeys
  • tag:getTagValues

These permissions must be added to a policy attached to relevant IAM user account.
For details on creating an IAM user and attaching policies, see Connecting the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Adapter.

For more details about other Enforcement Actions available, see Action Library.

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