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    Tablestore:Tags and Resource Groups

    Last Updated:Jun 20, 2026

    Tags and resource groups help you categorize, manage, and allocate costs for Tablestore instances.

    Tags

    Tags are key-value pairs that you can attach to Tablestore instances. You can use tags to group instances by criteria such as environment, team, or cost center. This lets you filter and manage them collectively or generate split bills.

    Limitations

    Constraint

    Description

    Tag key length

    Up to 128 characters

    Tag value length

    Up to 128 characters

    Forbidden prefixes

    Tag keys and values cannot start with aliyun or acs:.

    Forbidden content

    Tag keys and values cannot contain http:// or https://.

    Add tags to an instance

    Single 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, in the Instances, find the target instance. Hover over the image icon in the Tags column and click Edit in the pop-up box.

    4. In the Configure Tags dialog box, enter a tag key and a tag value, and then click OK.

      Parameter

      Description

      Tag key

      The tag key can be up to 128 characters in length. It cannot start with aliyun or acs: and cannot contain http:// or https://.

      Tag value

      The tag value can be up to 128 characters in length. It cannot start with aliyun or acs: and cannot contain http:// or https://.
    Note

    Alternatively, you can go to the Instance Details tab of the target instance. In the Basic Information section, click the image icon next to Tags to edit them.

    Batch

    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, in the Instances, select the desired instances and click Batch Tagging at the bottom of the page.

    4. In the Configure Tags dialog box, enter a tag key and a tag value, and then click OK.

      Parameter

      Description

      Tag key

      The tag key can be up to 128 characters in length. It cannot start with aliyun or acs: and cannot contain http:// or https://.

      Tag value

      The tag value can be up to 128 characters in length. It cannot start with aliyun or acs: and cannot contain http:// or https://.

    View tags on 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, in the Instances, find the target instance. Hover over the image icon in the Tags column to view its tags in the pop-up box.

      Note

      Alternatively, you can go to the Instance Details tab of the target instance to view the tags in the Basic Information section.

    Remove tags from an instance

    Single 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, in the Instances, find the target instance. Hover 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 you want to remove, and then click OK.

      Note

      • After you unbind a tag from a resource, the system automatically deletes the tag if it is not bound to any other resources.

      • Alternatively, you can go to the Instance Details tab of the target instance. In the Basic Information section, click the image icon next to Tags, and then remove the desired tags in the Configure Tags dialog box.

    Batch

    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, in the Instances, select the instances from which you want to remove tags and click Delete at the bottom of the page.

    4. In the Batch Unbind Tags dialog box, select the tags that you want to unbind, and then click Unbind x tags.

      Note

      After you unbind a tag from a resource, the system automatically deletes the tag if it is not bound to any other resources.

    Filter instances by tag

    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, above the Instances, click Filter by Tag. Select or enter a tag key and a tag value to view the matching instances in the list.

    Resource groups

    Resource groups help you manage resources and permissions within your Alibaba Cloud account.

    Change instance resource group

    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 name of an instance, or click Manage Instance in the Actions column.

    4. On the Instance Details tab, in the Basic Information section, click the image icon next to the resource group and select a new resource group.

    Filter 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. The instance list on the Overview page displays all instances that belong to the selected resource group.

      In the top navigation bar, switch to the target resource group by using the Workspace selector. The instance list updates to show only the instances in the selected resource group.

    Use cases

    You can use tags or resource groups for fine-grained management of Tablestore instances. The following are common use cases.

    Scenario

    Description

    Cost allocation

    After you add tags to an instance or change its resource group, you can view cost allocation data on the Split Bill page in the Expenses and Costs console. For more information, see and Split bill management (classic console).

    Important

    • After you bind a tag to an instance, the system synchronizes it to the cost allocation tags list in Expenses and Costs on the following day (T+1). You must enable the cost allocation tags feature and activate the specific tag before it can be used as a filter and in the list on the Split Bill page. For more information, see Cost allocation tags.

    • Cost allocation is 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 and need to restrict a user to viewing and managing only a subset of these instances, you can assign the instances to different resource groups. Then, you can use Alibaba Cloud RAM to grant the RAM user permissions for a specific resource group. For more information, see Resource grouping and authorization.

    Automated O&M

    • Bind different tags to Tablestore instances based on their environment. Then, create and run corresponding templates in CloudOps Orchestration Service (OOS) to perform automated batch O&M. For more information, see Use tags for automated O&M.

    • In Resource Orchestration Service (ROS), you can select O&M objects by resource group for efficient O&M. For more information, see Use resource groups and Resource Orchestration Service for efficient resource O&M.

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