Update AWS Resource Tags created via Cloudformation

Verify the change before applying the new tags

AWS Cloudformation allows to do dry-run via Changeset. You can view the change scope and attach it to your change control request to satisfy the change manager that it will update the resources which it is intended for.

Create ChangeSet

To update the tags of the resources created by cloudformation, you can use command like below -

You can use CAPABILITY_IAM as well if you have resources that do not have custom name.

You can also update specific resources also by specifying the resource types -

For other supported resource types, please refer to the link in the references section.

Verify the Change

To verify the change set created, execute the command

aws cloudformation describe-change-set changeset-1