Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the various ways you can create an inventory of your AWS resources. You learned that you can get started easily by enabling Cost Explorer and using the interface to view your resources. For a more detailed and granular view, you can use AWS CUR to have AWS send you monthly reports on cost and usage across your organization.

You further discovered other ways to gather inventory, including EC2 Global View for resources related to Amazon EC2 and Amazon VPC, Resource Groups and Tag Editor, enabling you to export results to a CSV file, and AWS Config for ongoing inventory management and change.

You gained an understanding of the importance of a tagging strategy that works for your organization. There are certain tagging best practices that you can apply, but it’s important to implement your strategy with cross-functional collaboration and streamlined communication.

Finally, you learned about how AWS Cost Categories provides you...