Utilizing Tags and Resource Groups allows an Organization to efficiently bill out resources to departments as well as keep track of who’s using what.

Tags

• Tags: Key value pairs attached to AWS resources
• Metadata: Data about Data
• They can sometimes be inherited from other services
  • Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk can create other resources with inherited tags

Resource Groups

• Group resources by assigned tags
• Group resources that share one or more tags
• Can contain information such as region, name, health checks, etc.
• Specific Information:
  • EC2: Public and private IP addresses
  • ELB: Port configurations
  • RDS: Database engine

Organizations

• Account management service that enables consolidation of multiple AWS accounts into a centrally managed organization
• Consolidated Billing