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Starting on March 23, 2026, LocalStack for AWS will consolidate into a single image that requires authentication. Learn more about what’s changing and what this means for your setup in this blog post.

Resource Groups Tagging API

Resource Groups Tagging API helps you centrally manage tags across AWS resources. You can apply and remove tags for multiple resources at once, and query resources by tag keys and values.

LocalStack allows you to use the Resource Groups Tagging API in your local environment to test tagging workflows end-to-end. The supported APIs are available on our API Coverage section, which provides information on the extent of Resource Groups Tagging API’s integration with LocalStack.

This guide is designed for users new to Resource Groups Tagging API and assumes basic knowledge of the AWS CLI and our awslocal wrapper script.

Start your LocalStack container using your preferred method. We will demonstrate how to create resources, tag them, and query them using the Resource Groups Tagging API.

Create an S3 bucket and an SQS queue:

Terminal window
BUCKET_NAME="rg-tagging-bucket"
QUEUE_NAME="rg-tagging-queue"
awslocal s3api create-bucket --bucket "$BUCKET_NAME"
QUEUE_URL=$(awslocal sqs create-queue --queue-name "$QUEUE_NAME" | jq -r '.QueueUrl')

Retrieve the resource ARNs:

Terminal window
BUCKET_ARN="arn:aws:s3:::$BUCKET_NAME"
QUEUE_ARN=$(awslocal sqs get-queue-attributes \
--queue-url "$QUEUE_URL" \
--attribute-names QueueArn | jq -r '.Attributes.QueueArn')

Use the TagResources API to apply tags:

Terminal window
awslocal resourcegroupstaggingapi tag-resources \
--resource-arn-list "$BUCKET_ARN" "$QUEUE_ARN" \
--tags '{"Environment":"dev","Team":"platform"}'

Use the GetResources API to list resources with a specific tag:

Terminal window
awslocal resourcegroupstaggingapi get-resources \
--tag-filters Key=Environment,Values=dev

You can also inspect available keys and values:

Terminal window
awslocal resourcegroupstaggingapi get-tag-keys
awslocal resourcegroupstaggingapi get-tag-values --key Environment

Use the UntagResources API to remove one or more tag keys:

Terminal window
awslocal resourcegroupstaggingapi untag-resources \
--resource-arn-list "$BUCKET_ARN" "$QUEUE_ARN" \
--tag-keys Team

LocalStack’s Resource Groups Tagging API supports tagging for the following services:

OperationImplementedImageVerified on Kubernetes
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