IBM Cloudability Tags and Groups in 5 Minutes or Less

In this video, we explore how IBM Cloudability helps organizations optimize their cloud spend and drive FinOps maturity. We cover key features such as Tag and Label Mapping, which standardizes resource tagging for consistent tracking, Account Grouping, which bridges tagging and business mapping for seamless cost allocation, and Business Mapping, which aligns cloud spend with organizational goals. Additionally, we highlight tools like the Tag Explorer to identify high-cost resources, Spending Anomalies Detection for uncovering unusual cost patterns, and Custom Dashboards for a unified view of your cloud spending. Watch to learn how Cloudability can transform your cloud cost management into actionable insights, ensuring your cloud strategy achieves its full potential.

Video Transcript:

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Welcome to C4G Insights. In today's Brief Insight, we're going to cover how IBM Cloudability helps organizations optimize their cloud spend and drive FinOps maturity to new heights. Let's get started. Cloud management is complex, but with Cloudability you gain clarity and control over your cloud spend.

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Let's explore how Cloudability transforms cloud cost management into actionable insights. First, let's talk about tag and label mapping. Cloudability enables you to map your resource tags to dimensions like service, application, and department.

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The standardization ensures consistent tracking across your cloud accounts, whether you're managing AWS, Azure, or GCP. For example, tags for applications can automatically group similar resources, eliminating gaps and ensuring precise cost allocation.

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Account grouping acts as a critical bridge between tagging and business mapping, which we'll get into next. By categorizing multiple accounts into cohesive groups such as business units, departments, or projects, it ensures consistent cost allocation and reporting across your cloud ecosystem.

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Account grouping simplifies the process of connecting individual tags to higher level business dimensions, making it easier to align cloud spend with organizational goals. It provides a clear structure for managing diverse accounts from multiple vendors.

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Next Business mapping allows you to align your cloud infrastructure with your organizational structure. Whether you're categorizing resources by department, project, or business unit, Cloudability lets you associate accounts with meaningful business dimensions.

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This clarity ensures that every dollar spent is tied to a specific goal or function. With Cloudability's Tag Explorer, you can identify your most expensive resources at a glance. For example, resources without proper tags are flagged as not set, allowing you to quickly resolve ambiguities and optimize costs.

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This feature is critical for targeting high cost assets and driving savings. Ever wondered why your costs spiked unexpectedly? Cloudability's spending anomalies detection uncovers unusual patterns and flags them for review. You can quickly identify anomalies such as unexpected compute usage or excessive storage costs, and drill down into the details to mitigate the issue.

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Finally, with custom dashboards, Cloudability provides a single pane of glass view into your cloud spend. From visualizing trends in monthly and yearly costs to tracking real time spending against budgets, these dashboards bring transparency and actionable insights to your FinOps practice.

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Cloudability is a tool trusted by a majority of Fortune 500s, consistently ranking high on both Gartner and Forrester reports focused on optimizing cloud spend and advancing FinOps maturity. Want to learn more, reach out to us at [email protected] or request a demo at c4genterprises.com/contact Let's take your cloud strategy to the next level together.