VPC Flow Logs adds EC2 resource tags and next-hop metadata
Amazon VPC Flow Logs now includes EC2 resource tags and next-hop interface metadata, simplifying network monitoring and troubleshooting. This eliminates manual data correlation, allowing users to directly link flow logs to specific resources and understand traffic traversal. This enhancement is available across numerous AWS Regions and is ideal for engineers managing VPC network traffic.
- →VPC Flow Logs supports EC2 resource tags
- →VPC Flow Logs supports next-hop interface metadata
- →Availability across AWS Regions
Features (2) ›
- VPC Flow Logs supports EC2 resource tags
VPC Flow Logs now embeds tag values from network interfaces, EC2 instances, and auto scaling groups. This eliminates the need to manually correlate flow log data with separate tag metadata for specific workloads.
- VPC Flow Logs supports next-hop interface metadata
Flow logs can now capture details about the next-hop network interface for each flow, including its ID, subnet, Availability Zone, VPC, and type. This aids in understanding traffic traversal through resources like NAT Gateways and Transit Gateways without manual correlation.
Notes (1) ›
- Availability across AWS Regions
Support for EC2 resource tags and next-hop metadata in VPC Flow Logs is now available in a wide range of AWS Regions globally, including US, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, and GovCloud.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/amazon-flow-logs-metadata