Low EC2 Regional

EC2 Elastic IP addresses should be tagged

Description

Flags EC2 Elastic IP address that have no user-defined tags. Tags help associate Elastic IP addresses with their owning team and use case; untagged Elastic IP addresses are operationally opaque.


Remediation

Apply at least one user-defined tag to every EC2 Elastic IP address.

Steps

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console and select the affected EC2 Elastic IP address.
  2. Open the Tags tab and add at least one tag with a non-aws: prefixed key.
  3. Save the changes.