Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary tag replication to associated AWS Lambda resource

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, an outside-in monitoring capability to continually verify your customers’ experience using snippets of code called canaries, now supports replication of tags created on canaries to the associated AWS Lambda function to help you better identify and organize your AWS resources. You can now also filter canaries by tags on the canaries list page in the CloudWatch Synthetics console.

A tag is a custom attribute label that you or AWS assigns to an AWS resource. With this release, tags created on a canary will be replicated to the Lambda function created by the canary when the option is selected in the AWS console or the optional parameter ResourcesToReplicateTags is specified in using Synthetics APIs via the CLI, SDK, or CloudFormation. Updating or deleting a canary's tags in the console or using CloudFormation will also modify the tags on the associated Lambda function, ensuring they remain in sync. This feature makes it easy to track Lambda resources associated with canaries via tags for purposes such as expense control, usage optimization, and enforcing governance policies.

Tag replication for CloudWatch Synthetics canaries is available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost to customers.

See user guide for console or API documentation to learn more about the feature, or refer to the user guide and AWS One Observability Workshop to get started with CloudWatch Synthetics monitoring.