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Using Cost Allocation Tags - AWS Billing
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USING COST ALLOCATION TAGS

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A tag is a label that you or AWS assigns to an AWS resource. Each tag consists
of a key and a value. For each resource, each tag key must be unique, and each
tag key can have only one value. You can use tags to organize your resources,
and cost allocation tags to track your AWS costs on a detailed level. After you
activate cost allocation tags, AWS uses the cost allocation tags to organize
your resource costs on your cost allocation report, to make it easier for you to
categorize and track your AWS costs. AWS provides two types of cost allocation
tags, an AWS generated tags and user-defined tags. AWS, or AWS Marketplace ISV
defines, creates, and applies the AWS generated tags for you, and you define,
create, and apply user-defined tags. You must activate both types of tags
separately before they can appear in Cost Explorer or on a cost allocation
report.

The following diagram illustrates the concept. In the example, you've assigned
and activated tags on two Amazon EC2 instances, one tag called Cost Center and
another tag called Stack. Each of the tags has an associated value. You also
activated the AWS generated tags, createdBy before creating these resources. The
createdBy tag tracks who created a resource. The user-defined tags use the user
prefix, and the AWS generated tag uses the aws: prefix.



After you or AWS applies tags to your AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2
instances or Amazon S3 buckets) and you activate the tags in the Billing and
Cost Management console, AWS generates a cost allocation report as a
comma-separated value (CSV file) with your usage and costs grouped by your
active tags. You can apply tags that represent business categories (such as cost
centers, application names, or owners) to organize your costs across multiple
services.

The cost allocation report includes all of your AWS costs for each billing
period. The report includes both tagged and untagged resources, so that you can
clearly organize the charges for resources. For example, if you tag resources
with an application name, you can track the total cost of a single application
that runs on those resources. The following screenshot shows a partial report
with columns for each tag.



At the end of the billing cycle, the total charges (tagged and untagged) on the
billing report with cost allocation tags reconciles with the total charges on
your Bills page total and other billing reports for the same period.

You can also use tags to filter views in Cost Explorer. For more information
about Cost Explorer, see Analyzing your costs with AWS Cost Explorer .

For more information about activating the AWS generated tags, see Activating the
AWS-Generated Cost Allocation Tags. For more information about applying and
activating user-defined tags, see User-Defined Cost Allocation Tags. All tags
can take up to 24 hours to appear in the Billing and Cost Management console.

Note

 * As a best practice, do not include sensitive information in tags.

 * Only management account in an organization and single accounts that are not
   members of an organization have access to the Cost Allocation Tags manager in
   the Billing console.

Topics

 * AWS-Generated Cost Allocation Tags
 * User-Defined Cost Allocation Tags
 * Monthly cost allocation report

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