How to do it...

In this recipe, you will use the Tag Editor to locate resources that do not have any tags. Ideally, all the resources in a production account will be tagged for various purposes. The Tag Editor can be a handy way to identify resources that you may have forgotten about:

  1. Log in to your AWS account and click the Resource Groups link at the top navigation bar. Then, select Tag Editor.

  1. Pick a resource type to search for. In the following example, I chose S3 buckets:
Tag Editor

If you don't see any resources listed, create a resource such as an S3 bucket or EC2 instance and come back to this screen to try the search again: ...

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