Tag your resources to apply AMS backup plans

To assign resources to an AMS backup plan, tag the resource with the plan’s tag key-value pair. You can use AMS Resource Tagger to apply the AMS backup plans to a subset of your resources or for all supported resources in your account. If you want to use an alternate method to apply tags to your resources, such as AWS CloudFormation or Terraform, then turn off Resource Tagger so that it doesn’t compete with your chosen tagging method. For more information, see Preventing Resource Tagger from modifying resources.

The following example demonstrates how you can use Resource Tagger to apply the default AMS backup plan on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances in your account. For this backup plan, apply the tag key ams:rt:backup-orchestrator and value true. To use a different backup plan, change the key to match your desired backup plan's tag key. To learn about AMS Resource Tagger and understand how to integrate the following referenced profile with the current (already configured) profile in your Accelerate account, see Resource Tagger.

1. Open the AWS AppConfig console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/appconfig.

2. Choose the ResourceTagger application.

3. Choose the Configuration profiles tab, then choose CustomerManagedTags

4. Choose Create to create a new profile.

5. Choose JSON, and then copy and paste the following JSON object:

   {
       "AWS::EC2::Instance": {
           "AccelerateBackupPlan": {
               "Enabled": true,
               "Filter": {
                   "Fn::AND": [
                       {
                           "Platform": "*"
                       }
                   ]
               },
               "Tags": [
                   {
                       "Key": "ams:rt:backup-orchestrator",
                       "Value": "true"
                   }
               ]
           }
       }
   }

6. Choose Create hosted configuration version.

7. Choose Start deployment.

8. Define the following deployment details:

   Environment: AMSInfrastructure
   Hosted configuration version: Select the version that you have just created.
   Deployment Strategy: AMSNoBakeDeployment

9. Choose Start deployment. Resource Tagger tags your instances ams:rt:backup-orchestrator: true, ensuring that your instances are backed up in accordance with the default AMS backup plan.