Amazon Resource Name (ARNs)

Arn

It uniquely identifies AWS resources

• required to specify a resource unambiguously across all AWS
• common to be able to copy the ARN to your clipboard

• variations
  • arn:partition:service:region:account-id:resource-id
  • arn:partition:service:region:account-id:resource-type/resource-id
  • arn:partition:service:region:account-id:resource-type:resource-id
• partition
  • aws: AWS Regions
  • aws-cn: China Regions
  • aws-us-gov: AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
• service
  • identifies the service (ex. EC2, s3, etc)
• region
• account-id
  • specific to user account
• resource id
  • could be a number name or path