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AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Tag Propagation for Managed Resources

AWS Lambda Managed Instances enables automatic tagging of managed resources like EC2 instances and EBS volumes, simplifying cost tracking and compliance management

AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation, allowing you to automatically apply tags to managed resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Amazon ENIs. This helps enforce cost allocation, service control policies (SCPs), and compliance requirements across all resources provisioned by your capacity providers. LMI runs Lambda functions on managed EC2 instances with built-in routing, load balancing, and auto scaling, providing access to specialized compute configurations. Previously, organizations had no way to propagate tags to the underlying managed resources LMI provisions, making it difficult to track costs accurately, enforce SCPs, or meet compliance standards. Now, by specifying a set of tags in your capacity provider configuration, LMI automatically applies those tags to all managed resources it creates. This ensures consistent tagging across EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and ENIs without manual intervention or custom automation. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions where LMI is generally available. To get started, configure the PropagateTags setting on your capacity provider using the CreateCapacityProvider or UpdateCapacityProvider APIs, set the mode to Explicit, and provide your desired tags as key-value pairs. Tag propagation applies to all new managed resources provisioned after the configuration is applied. You can configure these settings using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or AWS SAM.

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