What Is Cloud Governance and How Can Tagging Help?
In our increasingly cloud-managed world, cloud governance is not a new concept, but it is a concept that should be taken seriously if you are hoping to save money and optimize your cloud usage. There are many ways to go about enforcing cloud governance, but there is one strategy that can not only help with governance but also help tackle the other challenges that come with cloud computing – cloud tagging.?
Cloud Governance 101
At its core, cloud governance is a set of regulations, rules, and processes that guide your business to follow best practices. When implementing cloud governance, you take the time to define, integrate, manage, and monitor the policies you set up for your cloud usage. By setting up these policies, each user will be responsible for their own usage and regulated by the rules in place, providing consistent performance. This consistency will help your organization stay organized, on budget, secure, and optimized.?
The Benefits of Integrating Tagging?
Cloud tagging is your answer to better visibility. If you want to strengthen your cloud governance, you need to know what you are working with and be able to organize, optimize, and manage it. You can do all of that with the proper cloud tagging procedures in place. Whether your focus is automation, compliance, or cost management, a consistent tagging policy will become extremely beneficial as it can help allocate resources, streamline reporting, and create a more cost-effective cloud environment.?
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Efficient cloud tagging also allows you to label your resources to ensure they are going to the right places, used by the right people, and optimized in the best ways. Labeling can help with cloud governance, as without proper labeling, you could be putting your policy and compliance at risk if you lose or misuse certain resources. These labels should be descriptive, concise, and accurate.?
Many businesses use these five categories to best label and organize their tags:?
With this proper tagging in place, policies and regulations can be better monitored and managed, as well as security and automation can be boosted as resources are better organized and operated. Every department in your business will touch cloud resources, and to keep up your governance, proper tagging is essential to stay organized and running without issues.?
If you have further questions or want to implement these best practices in your organization, send me a message or contact the team at FinOps Oversight.