Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.
You can use tagging to categorize your AWS resources in different ways. Relational database tagging is useful when you have many resources in your account and you want to quickly identify a specific resource based on the tags. You can use Amazon RDS tags to add custom metadata to your RDS DB instances. A tag consists of a user-defined key and value. We recommend that you create a consistent set of tags to meet your organization's requirements.
This pattern provides an AWS CloudFormation template to help you monitor and tag RDS DB instances. The template creates an Amazon CloudWatch Events event that watches for the AWS CloudTrail CreateDBInstance event. (CloudTrail captures API calls for Amazon RDS as events.) When it detects this event, it calls an AWS Lambda function that automatically applies tag keys and values that you define. The template also sends out a notification that the instance has been tagged, by using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).
