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AWS IAM documentation change

Service: IAM · 2026-05-04 · Documentation low

File: IAM/latest/UserGuide/iam_example_ec2_GettingStarted_057_section.md

Summary

Added resource tagging commands for Kafka clusters, IAM policies, IAM roles, security groups, key pairs, and EC2 instances

Security assessment

Changes focus on adding project/tutorial tags to resources. Encryption settings remain unchanged, and no security features are documented.

Diff

diff --git a/IAM/latest/UserGuide/iam_example_ec2_GettingStarted_057_section.md b/IAM/latest/UserGuide/iam_example_ec2_GettingStarted_057_section.md
index 0561aee32..d82d5bd51 100644
--- a//IAM/latest/UserGuide/iam_example_ec2_GettingStarted_057_section.md
+++ b//IAM/latest/UserGuide/iam_example_ec2_GettingStarted_057_section.md
@@ -371 +371,2 @@ There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and ru
-        --encryption-info "{\"EncryptionInTransit\": {\"InCluster\": true, \"ClientBroker\": \"TLS\"}}" 2>&1)
+        --encryption-info "{\"EncryptionInTransit\": {\"InCluster\": true, \"ClientBroker\": \"TLS\"}}" \
+        --tags project=doc-smith,tutorial=amazon-managed-streaming-for-apache-kafka-gs 2>&1)
@@ -484,0 +486,3 @@ There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and ru
+    aws iam tag-policy --policy-arn "$POLICY_ARN" \
+        --tags Key=project,Value=doc-smith Key=tutorial,Value=amazon-managed-streaming-for-apache-kafka-gs
+    
@@ -500,0 +505,2 @@ There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and ru
+    aws iam tag-role --role-name "$ROLE_NAME" \
+        --tags Key=project,Value=doc-smith Key=tutorial,Value=amazon-managed-streaming-for-apache-kafka-gs
@@ -586 +592,2 @@ There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and ru
-        --vpc-id "$DEFAULT_VPC_ID" 2>&1)
+        --vpc-id "$DEFAULT_VPC_ID" \
+        --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=security-group,Tags=[{Key=project,Value=doc-smith},{Key=tutorial,Value=amazon-managed-streaming-for-apache-kafka-gs}]' 2>&1)
@@ -647 +654 @@ There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and ru
-    KEY_RESPONSE=$(aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name "$KEY_NAME" --query 'KeyMaterial' --output text 2>&1)
+    KEY_RESPONSE=$(aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name "$KEY_NAME" --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=key-pair,Tags=[{Key=project,Value=doc-smith},{Key=tutorial,Value=amazon-managed-streaming-for-apache-kafka-gs}]' --query 'KeyMaterial' --output text 2>&1)
@@ -687 +694 @@ There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and ru
-        --tag-specifications "ResourceType=instance,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=MSKTutorialClient-${RANDOM_SUFFIX}}]" 2>&1)
+        --tag-specifications "ResourceType=instance,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=MSKTutorialClient-${RANDOM_SUFFIX}},{Key=project,Value=doc-smith},{Key=tutorial,Value=amazon-managed-streaming-for-apache-kafka-gs}]" 2>&1)