Tags for your Application Load Balancer - Elastic Load Balancing

Tags for your Application Load Balancer

Tags help you to categorize your load balancers in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment.

You can add multiple tags to each load balancer. If you add a tag with a key that is already associated with the load balancer, it updates the value of that tag.

When you are finished with a tag, you can remove it from your load balancer.

Restrictions
  • Maximum number of tags per resource—50

  • Maximum key length—127 Unicode characters

  • Maximum value length—255 Unicode characters

  • Tag keys and values are case sensitive. Allowed characters are letters, spaces, and numbers representable in UTF-8, plus the following special characters: + - = . _ : / @. Do not use leading or trailing spaces.

  • Do not use the aws: prefix in your tag names or values because it is reserved for AWS use. You can't edit or delete tag names or values with this prefix. Tags with this prefix do not count against your tags per resource limit.

To update the tags for a load balancer using the console
  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. On the navigation pane, choose Load Balancers.

  3. Select the load balancer.

  4. On the Tags tab, choose Manage tags, and then do one or more of the following:

    1. To update a tag, edit the values of Key and Value.

    2. To add a new tag, choose Add tag and then enter values for Key and Value.

    3. To delete a tag, choose the Remove button next to the tag.

  5. When you have finished updating tags, choose Save changes.

To update the tags for a load balancer using the AWS CLI

Use the add-tags and remove-tags commands.