AWS : New Account: Power of tagging resources — Tag the default resources. Easily identify the undeleted resources across regions
May 18, 2023
Problem Statement:
- A newbie user created a new AWS account.
- Created several resources across multiple regions.
- Forgot to delete few resources, resulted in unexpected bill.
- How to proactively identify all such unterminated resources across all the regions in the account.
Solution :
- Use the resource groups and tag editor.
- This is a free AWS service.
- Whenever a new AWS account is created, tag all the default resources in all the regions, provided by the default VPCs, with a unique tag key/value.
- Do not use these tags for any other resources.