AWS Cloud Financial Management
Tag: Cost Allocation
Cost Allocation Blog Series #2: AWS-Generated vs. User-Defined Cost Allocation Tag
Tagging, as a great way to define the ownership and usage purpose of your resources in the format of metadata, allows you to quickly manage and filter your resources and trace costs back to the right entities. In this blog post, we will share his advice on how you use the two types of cost allocation tags: AWS-generated and User-defined.
How to build a chargeback/showback model for Savings Plans using the CUR
This blog is contributed by Shankar Ramachandran, Solutions Architect, Optimization Enterprise customers who leverage consolidated billing on AWS often have the need to do internal cost allocation. This can be challenging, particularly when using pricing models such as Savings Plans. In this blog post, we will provide prescriptive guidance on how to build an equitable […]
Public Beta: AWS Cost Categories
Since re:Invent, one of the hot topics in my queue has been identifying ways to better allocate and manage cloud costs. Today I wanted to quickly dive into how you can get started using Cost Categories, a new feature set that allows you to create custom groups on top of your cost and usage information. […]