Summary
In this chapter, we reviewed naming conventions and tagging strategies for cloud resources in depth. We now understand their key benefits as well as their differences, and how they synergize with other processes such as IaC, organizational policies, and cost allocation. In addition to this, we also looked at some recommendations on how to build a naming convention and a tagging strategy from scratch, which can be a good starting point for FinOps practitioners to create their own.
We also analyzed the differences between different public clouds in their approach to naming resources and using tags.
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In the next chapter, we will advance and deepen our review of the Inform pillar by explaining how we can estimate cloud savings to be used as a driver, prioritizer, and selling point for our FinOps initiatives going forward.