cartography-cncf/cartography

Consider expanding collection of AWS Tags, beyond those supported by the Resource Groups Tagging API

Opened this issue · 1 comments

Title: Consider expanding collection of AWS Tags, beyond those supported by the Resource Groups Tagging API

Description:

A subset of AWS resources do not support querying tags through the Resource Groups Tagging API. Of particular note, identity data - say, a user or group, which are currently, as far as I can tell, not covered by resourcegroupstaggingapi.

Perhaps this is something Amazon is working on, and it's not worth the work. But to me, having metadata for users and groups would be pretty valuable. I suspect there may be other resources, those just stood out as "wait, these seem like really important resources, but we can't see tags in cartography?"

Relevant Links:

Thanks!

Your docs indicating "tag support for the supported resources, if supported by the resource groups tagging API". I'm not clear on whether this is a design decision, or simply documentation of the current implementation / limitations.

Rather than have N modules create their own logic for attaching tags, we tried to rely on the resourcegroupstaggingapi to centralize that. Thanks for bringing up that there are some resources not supported by this (ugh).

I guess in the case of IAM users and roles we'd have to do a one-off thing to match how we've implemented it with the resourcegroupstaggingapi. As long as the schema matches and as long as it uses our data model, I'd support a change and help answer questions.