- Many kinds of tags
- To show up in detailed costing reports -> mark tags as Cost Allocation Tags
- Two types of cost allocation tags
- AWS generated
- Automatically created by AWS e.g.
aws:createdBy - Won't be applied to resources before activation
- Automatically created by AWS e.g.
- User tags
- Defined by user
- Mark them for use with cost allocation reports
- E.g.
Environmentso you can track and filter reports by your environment level
- AWS generated
- Takes up to 24 hours to show up in the reports
- Set up report with Cost Allocation Tags item
- AWS tags don't show up on resources themselves, they only show up in reports
- KEY IDEA If you want to figure out your costs or control your budget by environment, use Cost Allocation Tags
- Cost optimization pillars https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/cost-optimization-laying-the-foundation/cost-optimization-pillars.html