Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary tag replication to associated AWS Lambda resource
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The article discusses a new feature for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics: canary tag replication to associated AWS Lambda resources. This allows tags created on a canary (a snippet of code used to monitor customer experience) to be automatically replicated to the associated AWS Lambda function.
Specifically, the article covers:
- An overview of what tags are and their benefits (expense control, usage optimization, governance policies)
- How tags created on a CloudWatch Synthetics canary will now be replicated to the associated Lambda function
- Updating or deleting canary tags will also update the Lambda function tags to keep them in sync
- This feature is available in all AWS commercial regions at no additional cost
- Links to documentation and resources for learning more about the feature and CloudWatch Synthetics
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