Creating resource groups in Systems Manager

In this example, we will create a resource group of your EC2 instances tagged with the following information, but feel free to use your own tags:

Key	Value
Project	AWS
Domain	Security

 

Create a resource group with the following steps:

1. Log into the AWS Management Console.
2. Navigate to the Systems Manager service found within the Management & Governance category:

3. In the left-hand menu, select Find Resources:

The following screen will then appear, which allows us to create our resource group:

4. To define your resources for your group, select the Resource types drop-down box and select AWS::EC2::Instance:

5. Next, you need to add your tag keys and values into the appropriate box and click Add:

6. At this point, you have defined the resource type that you want to be a part of this group (EC2 instances) and filtered them using tag keys and values. To identify the resources that meet this criterion, you must then click the...