Prerequisites for working with Tag Editor

Before you get started working to tag your resources, be sure you have an active AWS account with existing resources and appropriate rights to tag resources and create groups.

Sign up for an AWS account

To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. There are two ways to sign up for AWS. If you want complete control over account configuration and where your content is stored, or if you have regulated workloads such as HIPAA or FedRAMP, use Sign up for AWS (advanced). If you are a new user and want to use a login you already own to sign in to AWS and create an AWS environment with preconfigured defaults in select AWS Regions, use Sign up for AWS.

Create resources

You must have resources in your AWS account to tag. For more information about the supported resource types, see the Tag Editor Tagging column under Supported resource types in the AWS Resource Groups User Guide.