# CloudWatch dashboards can wear tags now!

Hey there, it's Shiichan! Today I found a small but handy update for anyone doing ops work.

## What was announced?

Amazon CloudWatch now supports tags on dashboards. This landed on the AWS What's New feed on June 24, 2026.

You could already tag lots of AWS resources, but CloudWatch dashboards themselves didn't support tags. Now they do, so you can manage them just like your other resources.

## The story so far

Once you have a pile of dashboards, it gets hard to tell which one belongs to which team, or whether it's for production or staging. Without tags, you had to lean on naming conventions, and fine-grained access control was tricky.

## What changes

With tags, you can now:

- Group dashboards by team, project, or environment
- Use attribute-based access control (ABAC) by scoping IAM permissions to tag values
- Filter dashboards by tag in AWS Resource Explorer

For teams whose dashboards tend to sprawl, it's a quiet but welcome change.

## Dive Deep

When you create a new dashboard, the [PutDashboard API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_PutDashboard.html) now takes an optional Tags parameter, and you can attach up to 50 tags per dashboard.

For existing dashboards, [TagResource / UntagResource / ListTagsForResource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html) now work with dashboard ARNs, so you can add or remove tags after the fact.

It's available in all AWS Regions where CloudWatch operates, at no additional cost.

## Wrap-up

- CloudWatch dashboards now support tags
- Useful for organization, tag-based access control (ABAC), and filtering in Resource Explorer
- New dashboards via PutDashboard Tags (up to 50), existing ones via TagResource
- Available in all Regions, no extra cost

This one quietly helps ops teams whose dashboard list has gotten out of hand.