Resource Groups
- What they are
- A logical collection of AWS resources you view and act on as a unit, instead of hunting through per-service consoles.
- Two ways to define a group
- Tag-based query — everything matching
Project=Apolloacross services and Regions. Membership updates automatically as resources are created and tagged. - AWS CloudFormation stack-based — every resource in a given stack.
- Tag-based query — everything matching
- What you can do with a group
- See consolidated Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms for the whole application.
- Run AWS Systems Manager Automation, Run Command, and patching against the group as a target.
- View AWS Config compliance and AWS CloudTrail activity scoped to the group.
- Depends on
- Good, consistent Tags. A resource group is only as good as the tagging discipline behind it.
- Related
- AWS Resource Groups and Tag Editor — the console pairing of group management and bulk tag editing.
- Not to be confused with AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), which shares resources across accounts — a completely different job despite the similar name.