AmazonEC2Client.DescribeTags Method (DescribeTagsRequest)

Describes the specified tags for your EC2 resources.

For more information about tags, see Tag your Amazon EC2 resources in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide.

We strongly recommend using only paginated requests. Unpaginated requests are susceptible to throttling and timeouts.

The order of the elements in the response, including those within nested structures, might vary. Applications should not assume the elements appear in a particular order.

Note:

For .NET Core this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to DescribeTagsAsync.

Namespace: Amazon.EC2
Assembly: AWSSDK.EC2.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

public virtual DescribeTagsResponse DescribeTags(
         DescribeTagsRequest request
)

Parameters

request: Type: Amazon.EC2.Model.DescribeTagsRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the DescribeTags service method.

Return Value

Type: DescribeTagsResponse

The response from the DescribeTags service method, as returned by EC2.

Examples

This example describes the tags for the specified instance.

To describe the tags for a single resource


var client = new AmazonEC2Client();
var response = client.DescribeTags(new DescribeTagsRequest 
{
    Filters = new List<Filter> {
        new Filter {
            Name = "resource-id",
            Values = new List<string> {
                "i-1234567890abcdef8"
            }
        }
    }
});

List<TagDescription> tags = response.Tags;

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5

AmazonEC2Client.DescribeTags (DescribeTagsRequest)