[Enhancement] - Centrally manage CloudFormation tags in the Stack

[kirtan227]

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Requesting a feature where CloudFormation manages a tags centrally in a stack. Essentially a default tag section in template where it can be passed once to resource as opposed to defining the tags separately on each resources. Similar feature in terraform like default_tags [1]

Reference: [1] Default Tags https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/aws/aws-default-tags

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[r-heimann]

I believe this already exists and is called "Stack-Level Tags": https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-resource-tags.html

You pretty much define a tag while creating the stack and it will be added to every single resource inside the CloudFormation stack. You can check this in the CloudFormation GUI once you started to create a stack.

Be aware that AWS (or the Service Teams) likes to forget about tag support in CloudFormation, so this doesn't work for every resource (AWS::Events::Rule, AWS::EC2::VPCEndpoint, AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::Listener...)

[jk2l]

if you use AWS CDK, tagging a stack automatically copy those tags to each child resource under the stack