title: How to automate root device volume's tagging using CloudFormation
body: <p>I am not able to <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html" rel="noreferrer">tag</a> the <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/RootDeviceStorage.html" rel="noreferrer">root device volume</a> attached to <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/" rel="noreferrer">EC2</a> using <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/" rel="noreferrer">CloudFormation</a>'s <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/block-device-mapping-concepts.html" rel="noreferrer">block device mapping</a> because <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html" rel="noreferrer">tags</a> are not propagated to Amazon <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/" rel="noreferrer">EBS</a> volumes that are created from <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/block-device-mapping-concepts.html" rel="noreferrer">block device mappings</a>. Can <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/RootDeviceStorage.html" rel="noreferrer">root device volume</a>'s <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html" rel="noreferrer">tagging</a> be <em>automated</em> using <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/" rel="noreferrer">Cloudformation</a> in any way? Thanks.</p>