Any plans to make tags available through instance metadata? Posted by: weirdedhimself2 Posted on: Dec 21, 2010 11:00 AM Reply



Instances tagged with "cluster" and "deployment" could use these values for logging



Tags could be used to influence behavior (for example, a tag could influence which version of software to install, whether to start/stop something, etc)



Many of these things can be accomplished through user data upon instance boot, but the user data is static and cannot be modified once the instance launches.



For extra credit, it could also be useful for an instance to be able to change values of tags, i.e. to make it easy to see the status right from the EC2 Console.



Any plans for a feature like this? It would be incredibly helpful/cool to be able to query an instance's tags through the EC2 metadata API. Examples of use:Many of these things can be accomplished through user data upon instance boot, but the user data is static and cannot be modified once the instance launches.For extra credit, it could also be useful for an instance to be able to change values of tags, i.e. to make it easy to see the status right from the EC2 Console.Any plans for a feature like this? Replies: 74 | Pages: 3 - Last Post: Jan 13, 2020 3:14 AM by: awstomas