Detailed AWS Type and Resource Mappings

AWS Dashboard

AWS has a particular dashboard as resources are found within different services. The following table lists the dashboard location of each resource, and the below screenshot shows how the switch between the various services.

Instance

EC2

MachineImage (Private)

EC2

Volume

EC2

Snapshot

EC2

VMFirewall

EC2

FloatingIP

EC2

KeyPair

EC2

VMFirewallRule

EC2

Network

VPC

Subnet

VPC

Router

VPC

InternetGateway

VPC

Bucket

S2

BucketObject

S2

EC2, VPC, and S3

Resources in AWS are separated into three dashboards depending on the type of service handling the resources

AWS - Labeled Resources

Labeled Resource

AWS Resource Type

CB ID

CB Name

CB Label

AWSInstance

Instance

Instance ID

Instance ID

tag:Name

AWSMachineImage

AMI

AMI ID

AMI Name

tag:Name

AWSNetwork

VPC

VPC ID

VPC ID

tag:Name

AWSSubnet

Subnet

Subnet ID

Subnet ID

tag:Name

AWSRouter

Route Table

Route Table ID

Route Table ID

tag:Name

AWSVolume

Volume

Volume ID

Volume ID

tag:Name

AWSSnapshot

Snapshot

Snapshot ID

Snapshot ID

tag:Name

AWSVMFirewall

Security Group

Group ID

Group Name

tag:Name

The resources listed above are labeled, they thus have both the name and label properties in CloudBridge. These resources require a mandatory label parameter at creation. For all labeled resources, the label property in AWS maps to the tag with key:Name. However, unlike in Azure where all resources have names, only some AWS resources have an unchangeable name by which to identify them. Thus, for most AWS resources, the name property maps to the ID, in order to preserve the concept of names being a unique identifier, even if they are not easily readable in this context. For resources that do support naming in AWS, the name will be generated from the label given at creation, consisting of up to 55 characters from the label, followed by a UUID. The label property can subsequently be changed, but the name property will be set at creation and remain unchanged. Finally, labeled resources support a label parameter for the find method in their corresponding services. The below screenshots will help map these properties to AWS objects in the web portal.

name, ID, and label properties for AWS EC2 Instances

The CloudBridge name and ID properties map to the unchangeable resource ID in AWS when the resource does not allow for an unchangeable name. The label property maps to the tag with key ‘Name’ for all resources in AWS. By default, this label will appear in the first column.

name, ID, and label properties for AWS EC2 AMIs

When an AWS resource allows for an unchangeable name, the CloudBridge ID property maps to the Resource ID, while the Name property maps to the Resource Name. The label property maps to the tag with key ‘Name’ for all resources in AWS. By default, this label will appear in the first column.

AWS - Unlabeled Resources

Unlabeled Resource

AWS Resource Type

CB ID

CB Name

CB Label

AWSKeyPair

Key Pair

Name

Name

AWSBucket

Bucket

Name

Name

AWSBucketObject

Bucket Object

Key

Key

The resources listed above are unlabeled. They thus only have the name property in CloudBridge. These resources require a mandatory name parameter at creation, which will directly map to the unchangeable name property. Additionally, for these resources, the ID property also maps to the name in AWS, as these resources don’t have an ID in the traditional sense and can be located by name. Finally, unlabeled resources support a name parameter for the find method in their corresponding services.

list of buckets on AWS dashboard

Buckets can be found in the Amazon S3 portal. BucketObjects are contained within each Bucket.

AWS - Special Unlabeled Resources

Unlabeled Resource

AWS Resource Type

CB ID

CB Name

CB Label

AWSFloatingIP

Elastic IP

ID

[public_ip]

AWSInternetGateway

Internet Gateway

ID

tag:Name

AWSVMFirewallRule

Network Security Rules

ID

Generated: [direction]-[protocol]-[from_port]-[to_port]-[cidr]-[fw_id]

While these resources are similarly unlabeled, they do not follow the same general rules as the ones listed above. Firstly, they differ by the fact that they take neither a name nor a label parameter at creation. Moreover, each of them has other special properties.

The FloatingIP resource has a traditional resource ID, but instead of a traditional name, its name property maps to its Public IP. Moreover, the corresponding find method for Floating IPs can thus help find a resource by Public IP Address.

In terms of the gateway, given that gateways are not their own objects in other providers, we do not treat them like labeled resources in AWS although they could support labels. Thus, the internet gateway create method does not take a name parameter, and the name property is set automatically to a default value. Note that since this value is stored in the tag with key Name, the AWS dashboard does allow for its modification, although that is not encouraged as the default name is expected for the get_or_create method.

Finally, Firewall Rules in AWS differ from traditional unlabeled resources by the fact that they do not take a name parameter at creation, and the name property is automatically generated from the rule’s properties, as shown above. These rules can be found within each Firewall (i.e. Security Group) in the AWS EC2 portal, and will not have any name in the AWS dashboard