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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.

Platform Engineering vs. SRE vs. DevOps in Cloud Cost Management

Are your Platform Engineers, SREs, and DevOps stepping on each other's toes—or are they unlocking maximum efficiency together?

Part 6 - Lessons Learned: Surprises, Challenges, and Advice for Gen AI Projects

Whether you’re just getting started or refining an existing system, we hope these insights will help you navigate your own AI journey.

Part 5 - Scaling Gen AI Responsibly: Managing Costs and Ensuring Compliance

Here’s what we’ve learned about scaling Gen AI responsibly while keeping costs under control and compliance at the forefront.

Part 4 - Keeping Humans in the Loop: A Smarter Approach to Gen AI

Here’s why this collaborative approach has become a cornerstone of how we use Gen AI—and how it can work for you.

Part 3 - Making Sense of Complexity: Applying Gen AI to Real-World Challenges

Here’s how we’ve approached using Gen AI to turn complexity into clarity—and what we’ve learned along the way.

Part 2 - Build, Buy, or Fine-Tune? Choosing the Right AI Model

Here’s how we approached this decision and what we learned along the way.