What are the best practices for AWS EC2 instance naming conventions

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  •  08-07-2023
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Question

I'm new to AWS.

What are the best practices for naming instances/volumes for EC2. At the moment our instance(s) will be in one location, and availability zone. We are running Windows 2012.

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Solution

Amazon EC2 instance naming is done by using Tags (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html)

We do not provide best practices for naming, it really depends on your application, project, organisation.

Some customers are using tags per

  • environments (dev, tes, prod)
  • org unit (marketing, hr, tax...)
  • project / app name
  • expiration date (for temporary resources)
  • cost center code
  • ...

You can combine all these, up to 10 tags per resources

Seb

OTHER TIPS

There are none. You can name and tag instances in ways that work best for you. Some automation tools may add their own tags.

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