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Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags

Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags for all destinations, simplifying event filtering across multiple buckets with a single EventBridge rule.

Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags in events delivered to all destinations, including Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and AWS Lambda. System-generated tags are metadata labels attached to your bucket by AWS services. These tags allow you to filter events from thousands of buckets with a single EventBridge rule, rather than listing each bucket name individually. To get started, enable S3 Event Notifications on your general purpose buckets through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. If AWS services like AWS CloudFormation have already applied system-generated tags to your buckets, S3 automatically includes them in new event notifications. System-generated tags in S3 Event Notifications are available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions and require no changes to existing configurations.

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