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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.

Exploring AWS Cost Allocation Tags and Best Practices

Creating proper tagging hygiene is fundamental when looking to gain greater visibility in your cloud spend. This blog provides an introduction to tagging in AWS as well as how tags help with categorizing, identifying, and managing resources to effectively govern cloud costs.

Yotascale Named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing

Yotascale the industry leader in dynamic cloud cost management, today announced that it has been recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor”.

We’ve Always Known We Were ‘Cool’

Being recognized as a Gartner “Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing” is very exciting for everyone at Yotascale. Our team has strived to create an innovative solution that our customers depend on to manage the complex cloud environments that are the backbone of their business.

Cloud Computing's Environmental Impact and Cloud Waste - A Podcast Discussion

During this Cloudtweaks podcast, our CEO, Asim Razzaq, speaks with the host Steve Prentice on the environmental impact of cloud computing. We can measure cloud waste with unused or underutilized reserved instances, but how can we measure the carbon footprint of cloud waste?

Crucial Guide to Understanding Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Label Values

Implementing containers and Kubernetes into your on-premises or cloud environment became necessary as businesses raced to modernize, but some have struggled to efficiently manage microservice-based containers. This blog reviews Kubernetes labels, label selectors, and tagging in Amazon EKS.

The Ultimate Guide to Achieving Cloud Cost Visibility with Yotascale

There are multiple cloud cost management services available for managing your cloud spend. This guide will help you understand the benefits of those services as well as highlight some of the gaps that are also important to consider when looking to gain deeper visibility into your cloud costs.