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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.

Yotascale Cloud Cost Anomaly Detection Saved Zoom $600K in One Month

Cloud FinOps team acted on mid-month alert to remediate $40k per day cost spike‍.

Saving the Day and Month with Cloud Cost Anomaly Detection at Zoom

After receiving an alert from Yotascale, the cloud cost analyst immediately worked with the engineer responsible to remediate the issue and saved Zoom from a runaway cloud cost catastrophe.

Introducing “Always an Engineer,” a New, Short-Form Podcast from Yotascale CEO Asim Razzaq

Asim Razzaq, founder, CEO of Yotascale and former head of platform engineering at PayPal and eBay, helps answer software engineers’ burning questions in each 10-15 minute episode.

We’re live with the “Always an Engineer” podcast

Our fearless leader shares his experiences and offers perspectives to help software engineers make smarter decisions, work more efficiently as an individual or on a team, and, ultimately, become a better version of themselves—no matter where they are on their career path.

Yotascale Gains Strong Business Momentum in 2022 as Cloud Cost Management Becomes Top Priority for Enterprises

Company doubles ARR, renews 100% of customers, achieves 180% NDR, and surpasses $1B in annualized cloud spend under management.

Importance of Cloud Cost Containment for Your Business

Yotascale Contexts works with your multi-cloud infrastructure to maintain accurate, real-time cost allocation that mirrors your organization’s business structure, or any other reporting structure you choose. Explore how Yotascale Contexts works, and how to set it up in your organization.