Describing your AWS IoT Wireless resources
Before you get started with onboarding your LoRaWAN or Sidewalk devices, consider the naming convention of your devices, gateways, and destination. AWS IoT Wireless provides several options to help you identify the resources you create. While AWS IoT Wireless resources are given a unique ID when they're created, this ID is not descriptive nor can it be changed after the resource is created. To make it more convenient to select, identify, and manage your resources, you can assign a name, add a description, and attach tags and tag values to most AWS IoT Wireless resources.
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Resource names and description
For devices, gateways, and profiles, the resource name is an optional field that you can change after the resource is created. The name appears in the lists displayed on the resource hub pages.
For destinations, you provide a name that is unique in your AWS account and AWS Region. You can't change the destination name after you create the destination resource.
While a name can have up to 256 characters, the display space in the resource hub is limited. Make sure that the distinguishing part of the name appears in the first 20 to 30 characters, if possible.
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Resource tags
Tags are key-value pairs of metadata that can be attached to AWS resources. You choose both tag keys and their corresponding values.
Gateways, destinations, and profiles can have up to 50 tags attached to them. Devices don't support tags.
Resource names and description
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Destination |
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Wireless device |
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LoRaWAN gateway |
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Profile |
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The name field appears in resource hub lists of resources; however, the space is limited and so only the first 15-30 characters of the name might be visible. When selecting names for your resources, consider how you want them to identify the resources and how they'll be displayed in the console.
Description
Destination, device, and gateway resources also support a description field, which can accept up to 2,048 characters. The description field appears only in the individual resource's detail page. While the description field can hold a lot of information, because it only appears in the resource's detail page, it isn't convenient for scanning in the context of multiple resources.
Resource tags
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Destination |
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Wireless device |
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LoRaWAN gateway |
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Profile |
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Tags are words or phrases that act as metadata that you can use to identify and organize your AWS resources. You can think of the tag key as a category of information and the tag value as a specific value in that category. For example, you might have a tag value of color and then give some resources a value of blue for that tag and others a value of red. With that, you could use the Tag editor in the AWS console to find the resources with a color tag value of blue.
For more information about tagging in AWS IoT Wireless, see Tagging your AWS IoT Wireless resources.
For more information about tagging and tagging strategies, see Tag editor.
