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The Power of Tags: Allocating Every Cent

FinOps for Scalable Infrastructure

No Tag, No Mercy

If you don't tag a resource, you don't know who is spending the money.

Mandatory Tags in Terraform

We will implement a 'Resource Tagging Policy' using Terraform default_tags. Every resource must have:

  • Environment
  • Owner
  • CostCenter
  • Project

Automated Enforcement

We'll discuss how to use AWS Config or Azure Policy to automatically shut down untagged resources.