For large enterprises or small startups alike, tagging is the most critical daily activity to be performed in order to enable cost transparency. CSPs can report and display billing transparently, but those charges will mean little to the business or end users if they can't allocate or track costs to key business functions.
Tagging is a native function supported by all leading CSPs and supports customization. Since each business, organization, and consumer has unique internal processes and terminology, it is important to develop a tagging strategy that works for you.
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Cloud Native Architecture Best Practice: Tagging will very quickly become burdensome and impossible to maintain if tags are not designated at launch time. Within a couple of weeks, the entire environment can be untagged (and thus impossible to manage) if development life cycles are short enough. A cloud native cost optimized environment automatically detects (and even deletes) resources that aren't tagged...