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Info

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Tag Analyzer allows you to review your tagging coverage across all clouds and tag your resources directly from

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Cloudaware account

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Requirements

AWS

To tag your AWS resources from CloudAwareCloudaware, download CloudAware Cloudaware Tagging policy: Admin → AWS Accounts → ADD AMAZON ACCOUNT → Using Access & Secret Keys → select Tagging in 'Please use one of those'. Review and apply the policy.

Azure

To tag your Azure resources from CloudAwareCloudaware, create a custom role in your Azure portal using CLI or Rest API. The role should include a 'modify' permission granted for all resource types (e.g. Azure Virtual Machine) you would like to be able to tag in CloudAwareCloudaware. Assign the role to CloudAwareCloudaware.

GCP

Billing Tags: Google Cloud Platform does not provide the cost data split by instance out of the box. In order for CloudAware Cloudaware to display the cost on an instance level, every GCE instance in your environment needs to have a tag (e.g. instance-name: actual-name-of-this-instance) applied.

Tag Analyzer

1. Log in to your CloudAware Cloudaware account → Tag Analyzer

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2. Select a cloud provider. Pick the object type from the list (e.g. AWS EC2 Instances).

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New tags and their values will immediately appear in your AWS Console.

More options for tagging

You can also access Tag Analyzer using:

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  • the tab 'TAGS' on a resource →  + ADD TAG

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No Tags vs. Tags with empty values

In cases when tags with bank values are applied in AWS Console, Cloudaware Tag Analyzer may detect them as Tagged Objects showing empty values. You can create  Create two list views to observe the difference.

CloudAware Cloudaware Navigator →  AWS EC2 Instances → Custom Views (on the left) → + (Create New View) → Query Mode → copy the queries below → Save View

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Query sample for No Tag (replace

Replace TAGNAME with your Tag Name):

Code Block
`Deleted From AWS` equals null and `Tags JSON`[$["TAGNAME"]] equals null -> 
`Instance Name or ID`, `Account`.`Account Name` as "Account", `Application Tier`.`Application`.`Name` as "Application", `Tags JSON`[$["TAGNAME"]] as "Tag: 'TAGNAME'", `Tags`

Query sample for Tag <Name> is empty (replace

Replace TAGNAME with your Tag Name):

Code Block
`Deleted From AWS` equals null and `Tags JSON`[$["TAGNAME"]] equals '' -> 
`Instance Name or ID`, `Account`.`Account Name` as "Account", `Application Tier`.`Application`.`Name` as "Application", `Tags JSON`[$["TAGNAME"]] as "Tag: 'TAGNAME'", `Tags JSON`