Imagine you’re on the path to maturing your startup, and the finance team needs you to build reliable and correct cost attribution. You know, things like cost of goods sold (COGS) and contribution margin. The problem is that you have everything in a huge AWS account. Your best hope is a tedious and error-prone project to identify and tag every resource. After that’s done, you’ll probably still be chasing resources that fell through the cracks or finding new things that were not tagged properly.

Welcome to the challenge of cost allocation on AWS.