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Asked: 2026-06-03T03:11:45+00:00

I’d like to be able to create/modify the ‘Name’ attribute of an EC2 instance,

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I’d like to be able to create/modify the ‘Name’ attribute of an EC2 instance, ie, the field shown by ‘Name’ in the web UI.

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I am quite comfortable spawning instances via the Amazon API, however I cannot find any references to instance naming in the API reference. How can I create an instance with the Name attribute set, or modify the Name of an existing instance?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Name attribute is just a regular tag, that happens to be available/used by default for many resources, including Amazon EC2 instances.

    Accordingly, you can change it e.g. via the Amazon EC2 API Tools (ec2-create-tags, ec2-describe-tags, ec2-delete-tags), which facilitate the respective APIs in turn, see section API within Using Tags for more details:

    Summary of available API actions:

    • CreateTags — Adds a set of tags to a set of resources. You also use this
      to update a tag’s value (overwrites the existing value).       [emphasis mine]

    • DeleteTags — Deletes a set of tags from a set of resources.

    • DescribeTags — Lists your tags, or just certain ones you specify.

    These actions are further detailed in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud API Reference as usual:

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