# approved-amis-by-tag
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Checks if EC2 instances are using specified Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Specify the tags that identify the AMIs. Running instances with AMIs that don't have at least one of the specified tags are NON\_COMPLIANT. 



**Identifier:** APPROVED\_AMIS\_BY\_TAG

**Resource Types:** AWS::EC2::Instance

**Trigger type:** Configuration changes

**AWS Region:** All supported AWS regions

**Parameters:**

amisByTagKeyAndValueType: StringMapDefault: tag-key:tag-value,other-tag-key  
Comma-separated list of up to 10 AMIs tags (tag-key:tag-value). For example, tag-key1 matches AMIs with tag-key1; tag-key2:value2 matches tag-key2 with the value 2.

## AWS CloudFormation template
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To create AWS Config managed rules with AWS CloudFormation templates, see [Creating AWS Config Managed Rules With AWS CloudFormation Templates](aws-config-managed-rules-cloudformation-templates.md).

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Config. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query config` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).