EBS Volume Naming Conventions

01 Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to EC2 dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

03 In the navigation panel, under ELASTIC BLOCK STORE section, choose Volumes.

04 Open the dashboard Show/Hide Columns dialog box by clicking the configuration icon:

05 Inside the Show/Hide Columns dialog box, under Your Tag Keys column, select the Name checkbox then click Close to return to the EBS dashboard.

06 Under Name column, check the name tag value e.g.

of each volume provisioned in the current AWS region. If one or more EBS volumes are not using naming conventions based on the Cloud Conformity default pattern (i.e. ^volume-(ue1|uw1|uw2|ew1|ec1|an1|an2|as1|as2|se1)-([1-2]{1})([a-c]{1})-(d|t|s|p)-([a-z0-9\\-]+)$) or based on a well-defined custom pattern, the naming structure of these resources does not adhere to AWS tagging best practices.

07 Change the AWS region from the navigation bar and repeat the audit process for other regions.

01 Run describe-volumes command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using custom query filters to list the name tags values of the EBS volumes provisioned within the selected AWS region:

aws ec2 describe-volumes
	--region us-east-1
	--output table
	--query 'Volumes[*].Tags'

02 The command output should return an empty table if the available volumes do not have name tags defined or a populated table if the EBS volumes have already name tags defined, as shown in the following example:

-------------------------------------
|          DescribeVolumes          |
+------+----------------------------+
|  Key |           Value            |
+------+----------------------------+
| Name |  WebAppCacheServerVolume   |
| Name |  WebAppAPIServerVolume     |
+------+----------------------------+

03 Change the AWS region by updating the --region command parameter value and repeat step no. 1 and 2 to perform the audit process for other regions.

01 Sign in to the AWS Management Console.

02 Navigate to EC2 dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

03 In the navigation panel, under ELASTIC BLOCK STORE section, choose Volumes.

04 Select the EBS volume that you want to retag.

05 Select Tabs tab from the dashboard bottom panel and click the Add/Edit Tags button to add or change the resource Name tag.

06 In the Add/Edit Tags dialog box, perform the following actions:

1. If the selected volume does not have a Name tag defined, click Create Tag button and provide the following information:
   • In the Key box type Name as the key name.
   • In the Value box enter a value for the Name tag, value that must be defined based on Cloud Conformity pattern, e.g. volume-us-west-1-2b-p-apache.
2. If the selected volume does have a Name tag already defined, change the tag value available in the Value box with one that follows the Cloud Conformity default pattern, e.g. volume-us-west-1-2b-p-apache.
3. Click Save to apply the changes. The selected EBS volume is now tagged using an appropriate naming convention.

07 Repeat steps 4 – 6 to rename (retag) other AWS EBS volumes that require a valid naming convention, available in the current region.

08 Change the AWS region from the navigation bar and repeat the entire process for other regions.

01 Run describe-volumes command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using custom filters to list the IDs of the EBS volumes tagged without using an appropriate naming convention (see Audit section part II to identify the invalid Name tag values). The following command example expose the ID of an EBS volume tagged with Name=WebAppCacheServerVolume, provisioned in the US East-1 region:

aws ec2 describe-volumes
	--region us-east-1
	--filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=WebAppCacheServerVolume"
	--query 'Volumes[*].VolumeId'

02 The command output should return the ID of the volume identified by the Name tag value:

[
    "vol-9a19753d"
]

03 Run create-tags command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the volume ID returned at the previous step as identifier to add or overwrite the Name tag value for the specified AWS EBS volume. The following command example overwrites the Name tag value of a volume with the ID vol-9a19753d, provisioned in the US East-1 region. The tag value used, i.e. volume-us-west-1-2b-p-apache, follows a well-defined naming convention based on the Cloud Conformity recommended pattern (if successful, the command does not return an output):

aws ec2 create-tags
	--region us-east-1
	--resources vol-9a19753d
	--tags Key=Name,Value=volume-us-west-1-2b-p-apache

04 Repeat steps no. 1 - 3 to retag other EBS volumes that require a valid naming convention, available in the current region.

05 Repeat steps no. 1 - 4 to implement the entire process for other AWS regions.