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Best Practices for Terraform AWS Tags

Learn general AWS tags best practices and using the default_tags method, along with some specific tagging configuration for ASG and EC2 volumes.

This talk will cover key topics around AWS tags, including:

  • General AWS tags best practices

  • The new Terraform default_tags for the AWS provider

  • Work-arounds for default_tags bugs

  • Specific tagging config for ASG and EC2 volumes

The author has also written two blog posts on this topic for further detail.

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