diff --git a/code/ddns-lambda.py b/code/ddns-lambda.py
index cd32eb8..8ac0262 100755
--- a/code/ddns-lambda.py
+++ b/code/ddns-lambda.py
@@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ def lambda_handler(
 
     LOGGER.debug("iterating through tags %s", lineno())
 
+    tags_dict = tags_to_dict(tags)
     flags = process_tags_flags(tags)
     LOGGER.debug("New flags structure: %s", str(pformat(flags)) + lineno())
     LOGGER.info("Options flags: " + ' '.join([f"{x}={flags[x]}" for x in flags]))
@@ -2960,6 +2961,18 @@ def process_delete_records(route53, instance_id, zone_id,
     return response
 
 
+def tags_to_dict(tags):
+    """
+    Process all tag key/value pairs into a dict
+
+    :param list(dict(string)) tags: tags from instance, list of dict of string
+    :return dict(string): flag settings in defaultdict for controlling which names are registered and when
+    """
+
+    tag_dict = {tag['Key'].lstrip().rstrip(): tag['Value'] for tag in tags}
+    return tag_dict
+
+
 def process_tags_flags(tags):
     """
     Process the DNS flags tags into  for tags[key]=='boc:dns:flags'
@@ -2978,8 +2991,6 @@ def process_tags_flags(tags):
 
     return flags_dict
 
-# TAGKEY_CNAME = os.environ.get('TagKeyCname', 'boc:dns:cname')
-
 
 def process_tags_value(name):
     """
@@ -3131,20 +3142,23 @@ def create_fqdn(host, zone):
     fqdn += '.' if fqdn[-1] != '.' else ''
     return fqdn
 
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diff --git a/code/ddns-lambda.zip b/code/ddns-lambda.zip
index 0c94b2f..76c92c2 100644
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