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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.

Part 1 - Getting Started with Gen AI: Navigating the Landscape

Here’s how we navigated the early stages of adopting Gen AI into our product strategy—and what you can learn from our experience.

Mastering Multi-Cloud Cost Management Part 3: How Transparency and Efficiency Fuel Innovation

Transparency and efficiency aren’t just buzzwords—they’re the foundation for driving innovation in multi-cloud environments.

Mastering Multi-Cloud Cost Management Part 2: Bringing Cloud Costs Into Focus With Your Product P&L

By incorporating the total cost of digital investments into your Product P&L, you unlock insights that go beyond the bottom line.

Mastering Multi-Cloud Cost Management Part 1: How Alignment Can Increase Efficiency

Managing multi-cloud costs can feel like untangling a knot—but the secret to success lies in organizational alignment.

Rethinking Platform Engineering in the Era of Total Cloud Costs

Total Platform Cost Management is the holistic practice of managing and optimizing costs across an organization's entire cloud technology. Here's why it's important.

The Cloud Cost Management Landscape: Yotascale's Role in Innovation

We are delighted to be recognized by Forrester Research as one of the leading innovators in this market with our GenAI FinOps technology–Yota Copilot.