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    Tablestore:Tags and resource groups

    Last Updated:May 19, 2025

    Tags and resource groups help you better categorize and search Tablestore instances, and allocate costs to Tablestore instances.

    Tags

    Tags are identifiers of cloud resources. They help you categorize, search, and aggregate cloud resources that have the same characteristics from different dimensions, making resource management easier.

    Add tags to instances

    Operations on a single instance

    1. Log on to the Tablestore console.

    2. In the top navigation bar, select a resource group and a region.

    3. In the Instances section of the Overview page, find the instance that you want to manage, move the pointer over the image icon in the Tags column, and click Edit in the pop-up box.

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    4. In the Configure Tags dialog box, configure the parameters and then click OK. The following table describes the parameters.

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      Parameter

      Description

      Tag Key

      A tag key can contain up to 128 characters. It cannot start with aliyun or acs:, and cannot contain http:// or https://.

      Tag Value

      A tag value can contain up to 128 characters. It cannot start with aliyun or acs:, and cannot contain http:// or https://.

    Note

    You can also click the image icon next to Tags to add tags in the Basic Information section on the Instance Details tab of the instance that you want to manage.

    Operations on multiple instances

    1. Log on to the Tablestore console.

    2. In the top navigation bar, select a resource group and a region.

    3. In the Instances section of the Overview page, select the instances to which you want to add tags, and click Batch Tagging at the bottom of the page.

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    4. In the Configure Tags dialog box, configure the parameters and then click OK. The following table describes the parameters.

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      Parameter

      Description

      Tag Key

      A tag key can contain up to 128 characters. It cannot start with aliyun or acs:, and cannot contain http:// or https://.

      Tag Value

      A tag value can contain up to 128 characters. It cannot start with aliyun or acs:, and cannot contain http:// or https://.

    View tags added to an instance

    1. Log on to the Tablestore console.

    2. In the top navigation bar, select a resource group and a region.

    3. In the Instances section of the Overview page, find the instance that you want to manage and move the pointer over the image icon in the Tags column to view the tags that are added to the instance in the pop-up box.

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      Note

      You can also view the tags that are added to an instance in the Basic Information section on the Instance Details tab of the instance.

    Remove tags from instances

    Operations on a single instance

    1. Log on to the Tablestore console.

    2. In the top navigation bar, select a resource group and a region.

    3. In the Instances section of the Overview page, find the instance that you want to manage, move the pointer over the image icon in the Tags column, and click Edit in the pop-up box.

    4. In the Configure Tags dialog box, click the image icon next to the tag that you want to remove, and click OK.

      Note

      • After you remove the tag from the instance, the system automatically deletes the tag if the tag is not added to other resources.

      • You can also remove a tag from an instance in the Configure Tags dialog box that is displayed after you click the image icon next to Tags in the Basic Information section on the Instance Details tab of the instance.

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    Operations on multiple instances

    1. Log on to the Tablestore console.

    2. In the top navigation bar, select a resource group and a region.

    3. In the Instances section of the Overview page, select the instances from which you want to remove tags, and click Delete Tag at the bottom of the page.

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    4. In the Delete Tags for Multiple Resources dialog box, select the tags you want to remove, and click Unbind x tags.

      Note

      After you remove the tags from the instances, the system automatically deletes the tags if the tags are not added to other resources.

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    Search instances by tag

    1. Log on to the Tablestore console.

    2. In the top navigation bar, select a resource group and a region.

    3. In the upper part of the instance list in the Instances section of the Overview page, click Filter by Tag and select or enter tag keys and the corresponding tag values to view the instances that have the specified tags in the list.

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    Resource groups

    Resource Group is a mechanism for grouping and managing resources in an Alibaba Cloud account. Resource groups help you simplify resource grouping and authorization management within a single Alibaba Cloud account.

    Modify the resource group of an instance

    1. Log on to the Tablestore console.

    2. In the top navigation bar, select a resource group and a region.

    3. On the Overview page, click the instance name or click Manage Instance in the Actions column of the instance.

    4. In the Basic Information section on the Instance Details tab, click the image icon next to Resource Group to modify the resource group.

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    Search instances by resource group

    1. Log on to the Tablestore console.

    2. In the top navigation bar, select a resource group and a region.

    3. In the Instances section of the Overview page, all instances in the resource group are displayed.

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    Scenarios

    You can use tags or resource groups for fine-grained management of your Tablestore instances. The following table describes common scenarios.

    Scenario

    Description

    Split bill

    After you add tags to instances or modify resource groups for instances, you can view the split bill data on the Split Bill page in the Expenses and Costs console. For more information, see Split Bill.

    Important

    • After you add tags to instances, the tags are synchronized to the Cost allocation tags page in the Expenses and Costs console on the next day (T+1). Tags appear in the filter section and the split bill list on the Split Bill page only after you enable the cost allocation tags feature and the corresponding tags. For more information, see Cost allocation tags.

    • Currently, split bills are not supported for search indexes (search_index), time series metadata tables (timeseries_meta), or time series data tables (timeseries_data).

    Group authorization

    If you have multiple Tablestore instances on Alibaba Cloud and want to restrict users to view and manage only some of the instances, you can use resource groups to group instances, use Alibaba Cloud Resource Access Management (RAM) to create RAM users, and then grant the RAM users the permissions to access only specific resource groups. For more information, see Classify resources into resource groups and grant permissions on the resource groups.

    Automated O&M

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