Tracking usage of Cloudformation templates and CDK Constructs across multiple accounts

Question

Hello

In my team we provide CloudFormation templates and CDK Constructs for other teams in our organization to use. We want to track where and what version of our templates and constructs are used across multiple accounts. We are currently setting tags in our templates and constructs but compiling the information has turned out more difficult. We have looked at AWS Config but the Advanced Queries doesn't allow querying on tags nor does it seem to allow me to query on all resource types, for example I can't seem to query for any types of ECS resources which would be relevant for us.

Is there a good way to track this usage?

Thank you

Answer

Hello,

An alternative is to use the [AWS Resource Groups and Tags](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ARG/latest/userguide/tag-editor.html). With this feature you can use the tag editor console or APIs to query tags on [supported resources](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ARG/latest/userguide/supported-resources.html) in a single account. Amongst the supported resources are the ECS cluster and ECS task definition.

For additional helpful information, see [How to Efficiently Extract and Query Tagged Resources Using the AWS Resource Tagging API and S3 Select (SQL)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/how-to-efficiently-extract-and-query-tagged-resources-using-the-aws-resource-tagging-api-and-s3-select-sql/)

Tracking usage of Cloudformation templates and CDK Constructs across multiple accounts

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