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AWS Cost Allocation Tags and Cost Reduction

by We think it’s unnecessarily high, and we’d like you to look into it and bring it under control.”

There are other tools in AWS that can assist Bob with this task, and we’ll mention those in brief detail later in this article. In general, tags have some characteristics which we should be aware of (and if I missed something, please add your comment): In the next section, we’ll look at the AWS billing dashboard, where we can activate a tag, and also at a report that’s filtered by that tag.

In this article, we introduced cost allocation tags, demonstrated how they work, and reviewed two services, AWS Organizations and AWS Config, which can be used to achieve tag compliance across all AWS resources.