Tagging Platform Resources: Azure Synapse as Example

This post, which is a follow-up to an earlier article, "Azure Synapse Analytics: Do Your Homework!", is about understanding how tagging is applied to platform services, using Azure Synapse Analytics as an example. Let's start this by reviewing the FinOps Lifecycle, as visually expressed in this FinOps Foundation graphic: FinOps Lifecycle from the FinOps Foundation …

Tag Your Azure Assets for Business Insight

Yesterday, while writing about the difference between cloud cost optimization (observability) and cost cutting (accounting) on Twitter, I mentioned the importance of tagging as a key element of a spending observability strategy. Let's dive into this using a real-world example. Angry Chocolates International (ACI) [real company, actual name obscured] has a deep investment in Azure …