Question:
I have resources defined in my Cloudformation template file with tags defined like so:
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"Properties": { "Tags": [ { "Key": "Environment", "Value": {"Ref": "Environment"}}, { "Key": "Hello", "Value": "World"} ] } |
My IAM username is my.name. I would like to add a key named Creator to the Tags property with value my username (my.name). Moreover, I need this value to reflect the username of whoever runs this Cloudformation template. How can I do it?
Answer:
I am not aware of any way of referencing the IAM username directly from the template JSON.
However, you can use get-user to get the username (either using the CLI or one of the SDKs), and then pass it on to CloudFormation as a parameter, or, if you are creating the template JSON programmatically, just insert it directly.