Stage 2 · Lesson 6 of 7
Untaggable and shared spend
Some cost can never carry your tags: , taxes, some data transfer, , commitments bought centrally, and shared platforms such as a cluster or a central logging account. Do not chase 100% tag coverage.
Instead, report how much cost is allocated, how much is shared on purpose, and how much is simply untagged. Handle with a split rule (next stage) and untagged cost by finding the owners of the biggest items each month.
Common trapquietly leaving untagged cost out of team reports, so the totals never add up to the .
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- CourseFreeGoogle Cloud cost management courses (Google Skills)
Google Cloud · Beginner
Finish "Understand Your Google Cloud Costs": its labs query billing data in BigQuery
- BookPaidCloud FinOps, 2nd edition (O'Reilly)
O'Reilly Media · Intermediate · Paid book
Paid: the chapters on allocation and tagging strategy explain the reasoning behind a good policy