diff --git a/app/scripts/modules/amazon/src/serverGroup/configure/serverGroupCommandBuilder.service.js b/app/scripts/modules/amazon/src/serverGroup/configure/serverGroupCommandBuilder.service.js
index c96bc61cfaf..36b128e3e12 100644
--- a/app/scripts/modules/amazon/src/serverGroup/configure/serverGroupCommandBuilder.service.js
+++ b/app/scripts/modules/amazon/src/serverGroup/configure/serverGroupCommandBuilder.service.js
@@ -189,10 +189,15 @@ module.exports = angular.module('spinnaker.amazon.serverGroupCommandBuilder.serv
         var useAmiBlockDeviceMappings = applicationAwsSettings.useAmiBlockDeviceMappings || false;
 
         const existingTags = {};
+        // These tags are applied by Clouddriver (if configured to do so), regardless of what the user might enter
+        // Might be worth feature flagging this if it turns out other folks are hard-coding these values
+        const reservedTags = [ 'spinnaker:application', 'spinnaker:stack', 'spinnaker:details' ];
         if (serverGroup.asg.tags) {
-          serverGroup.asg.tags.forEach(tag => {
-            existingTags[tag.key] = tag.value;
-          });
+          serverGroup.asg.tags
+            .filter(t => !reservedTags.includes(t.key))
+            .forEach(tag => {
+              existingTags[tag.key] = tag.value;
+            });
         }
 
         var command = {
diff --git a/app/scripts/modules/amazon/src/serverGroup/configure/serverGroupCommandBuilder.spec.js b/app/scripts/modules/amazon/src/serverGroup/configure/serverGroupCommandBuilder.spec.js
index bc13836168b..e614ef41d77 100644
--- a/app/scripts/modules/amazon/src/serverGroup/configure/serverGroupCommandBuilder.spec.js
+++ b/app/scripts/modules/amazon/src/serverGroup/configure/serverGroupCommandBuilder.spec.js
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ describe('awsServerGroupCommandBuilder', function() {
       expect(command.suspendedProcesses).toEqual([]);
     });
 
-    it('copies tags', function () {
+    it('copies tags not in the reserved list:', function () {
       spyOn(this.instanceTypeService, 'getCategoryForInstanceType').and.returnValue(this.$q.when('selectedProfile'));
 
       const baseServerGroup = {
@@ -154,11 +154,15 @@ describe('awsServerGroupCommandBuilder', function() {
           vpczoneIdentifier: '',
           tags: [
             {
-              key: "some-key",
+              key: 'some-key',
               propagateAtLaunch: true,
-              resourceId: "some-resource-id",
-              resourceType: "auto-scaling-group",
-              value: "some-value"
+              resourceId: 'some-resource-id',
+              resourceType: 'auto-scaling-group',
+              value: 'some-value'
+            },
+            {
+              key: 'spinnaker:application',
+              value: 'n/a'
             }
           ]
         },
@@ -175,7 +179,7 @@ describe('awsServerGroupCommandBuilder', function() {
 
       this.$scope.$digest();
 
-      expect(command.tags).toEqual({"some-key": "some-value"});
+      expect(command.tags).toEqual({'some-key': 'some-value'});
     });
   });