What are the best practices for AWS EC2 instance naming conventions

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I'm new to AWS.

What are the best practices for naming instances/volumes for EC2. At the moment our instance(s) will be in one location, and availability zone. We are running Windows 2012.

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2 Answers

10
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Amazon EC2 instance naming is done by using Tags (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html)

We do not provide best practices for naming, it really depends on your application, project, organisation.

Some customers are using tags per

  • environments (dev, tes, prod)
  • org unit (marketing, hr, tax...)
  • project / app name
  • expiration date (for temporary resources)
  • cost center code
  • ...

You can combine all these, up to 10 tags per resources

Seb

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There are none. You can name and tag instances in ways that work best for you. Some automation tools may add their own tags.