- Are tags that we can enable to provide additional information for any billing report in AWS
- Cost Allocation Tags needs to enabled individually per account or per organization from the management account
- There 2 different form of Cost Allocation Tags:
- AWS generated - example:
aws:createdBy or aws:cloudformation:stack-name. These are added automatically by AWS if cost allocation tags are enabled
- User defined tags:
user:something
- Both type of tags will be visible in AWS cost reports and can be used as a filter
- Cost Allocation Tags appear only int he Billing Console
- After enabling Cost Allocation Tags, it can take up to 24 hours to be visible and active
- Cost Allocation Tags are not added retroactively