Tagging is a way to assign a label to an AWS resource. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways. For example, you can categorize by purpose, owner, department,or environment. Each tag consists of a key and an optional value (for example, Department: Finance
), both of which you define.
For the purposes of MAP, tagging of migrated workloads with the specific map-migrated
tag (tag key is case sensitive) is necessary to enable the following:
The tagging exercise is done when the workload is migrated to AWS. Typically, tags are applied by the workload owners who will be migrating their workloads. This process is repeated as workloads are moved across until the entire MAP migration scope has been migrated.
Tagging your AWS resources is a best practice even outside of MAP. For more information, see the Tagging Best Practices Whitepaper.