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Netflix struggles to understand its cloud costs (www.theregister.com)
submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] custard_swollower 19 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Not sure what is hard in it - you need consistent tagging, and that by itself gives you a lot of mileage in cost explorer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

That doesn't work in all cases. I've recently come across two examples where we had a hard time explaining our costs even though we extensively tag and even have fine-grained AWS accounts:

  • Some costs can't be tagged or at least not easily, e.g. custom CloudWatch metrics.
  • For some resources it makes a lot more sense to provide them centrally for multiple services at once, e.g. NAT gateways or load balancers.
[–] c0c0c0 9 points 19 hours ago

Not only is that free, but I can't imagine a better alternative. And they would have the same issue with allocation on prem. WithOUT tagging and Cost Explorer.