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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.

ESG Cloud Observability Survey Reveals Enterprises are Challenged to Keep Track of Cloud Costs and Need Better Visibility into Cloud Spend

64% of IT, DevOps and AppDev professionals agree – the adoption of public cloud or multiple public cloud providers has made observability significantly more difficult.

The State of Cloud Observability

Cloud observability is a broad category that encompasses performance monitoring, security monitoring, cloud cost monitoring and more. The 2022 ESG Distributed Cloud: Observability survey gives great insight into the state of cloud observability today.

What Are The Benefits of RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)?

Role-based access control (RBAC) is a powerful, yet simple, tool for organizations to manage application and data access. RBAC for cloud cost management ensures that the right people have access to the data they need to succeed, without sacrificing data privacy and control.

Yotascale Announces Multi-Cloud Container Cost Allocation and Optimization with Support for Microsoft Azure

Leader in dynamic cloud cost management extends support to Azure customers and enterprises running workloads across both AWS and Azure, including containers and Kubernetes.

Multi-Cloud Cost Management Challenges

Multi-cloud infrastructures can complicate multi-cloud cost management and cloud cost visibility. Learn some basic challenges and best practices for multi-cloud cost management.

Yotascale Brings On Amazon and OneLogin Veteran Jake Reichert as New VP of Engineering

With decades of experience building engineering teams from the ground up, Reichert will bolster Yotascale’s leadership and growth in dynamic cloud cost management.