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Beyond the Tag: How Magic Allocation and COGS Unlock the Real Value of Your Cloud Investments

Tagging isn’t the goal—clarity is. Discover how Magic Allocation and COGS together turn cloud cost data into strategic insight teams can trust.

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Introducing Magic Allocation: How AI (Finally) Changes the Tagging Game for FinOps

Tagging doesn’t scale—but AI does. This post introduces Magic Allocation, a new AI-powered approach to cloud cost allocation that learns, adapts, and finally makes FinOps feel manageable.

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The Real Reason Tagging Fails - and What Comes Next for FinOps

This post unpacks why cloud cost allocation fails at scale—and why Magic Allocation may finally offer a smarter way forward.

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How to Stop Cloud Cost Questions from Interrupting Your Engineers

This practical guide covers tagging, ownership, dashboards, and alerts using native and open-source resources.

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The Developer’s Guide to AWS Tagging for Cost Management

This in-depth developer guide covers best practices, automation tips, code examples (CLI, Terraform, Boto3), and how to enforce compliance at scale.

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Spend Smarter in the Cloud: The Case for Total Cost of Ownership

Learn how to calculate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for cloud services—without expensive tools.

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You Didn’t Choose Multi-Cloud to Burn Budget

A hands-on guide to managing multi-cloud spend without third-party tools.

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COGS and the Future of Cloud Cost Management: A Forward Look with Joel Pettigrew

Cloud costs are evolving fast. Learn why reclassifying cloud spend as COGS is key to financial clarity, accountability, and smarter product decisions in the AI era.

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The COGS-Driven Approach to Fixing Cloud Cost Tagging

Why cloud cost tagging breaks down—and how a COGS-driven approach can bring clarity, accuracy, and consistency across teams and tools.

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COGS: The Missing Link in Cloud Cost Management

Discover how reclassifying cloud spend as COGS enhances cost visibility, improves gross margins, and drives smarter financial decisions.

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The Four Pillars of Cloud Cost Management

Struggling with cloud costs? Learn how the Four Pillars of Cloud Cost Management: Visibility, Allocation, Optimization, and Budgeting & Forecasting can help!

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Understanding AWS Savings Plans vs Reserved Instances in 2025

AWS EC2 Savings Plans vs. Reserved Instances (RIs) - which one is better in 2025? Learn the answer here.

Mastering Cloud Cost Analysis: Top Strategies to Cut Cloud Costs

Making a significant dent in cloud costs just for the sake of cost cutting is easier said than done, especially for tech companies born in the cloud. Here’s some food for thought when you're looking at cutting costs.

Amid CloudHealth uncertainty, embrace change

CloudHealth was already acquired once, by VMware. Now, VMware is being acquired by Broadcom. Is it time to explore other cloud cost management options?

An Urgent Call For Cloud Cost Optimization & Efficiency

As with any resource, companies have a responsibility to use cloud services efficiently. As an organization with its own ESG goals, how do you know you’re using the cloud as efficiently as possible?

The Forrester Now Tech Report on Cloud Cost Management and Optimization

The Forrester Now Tech: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization report explores and highlights vendors like Yotascale and gives great guidance on finding a cloud cost management product to suit your business needs.

Overcoming Multi-Currency, Multi-Cloud Management Challenges

With a multi-cloud strategy often comes a multi-currency challenge in terms of cloud cost observability as some of the cloud providers, like Azure, allow companies to be billed in any currency. The new Yotascale multi-currency service removes the challenge of getting a single pane of glass view of all your cloud costs.

Yotascale Featured in the Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Management Platforms

The Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Management Tooling is out, and has some great insights about what to look for when assessing cloud management tools. Yotascale is delighted to be included in the guide!