Our experts are thinkers AND doers focused on accelerating business outcomes. To showcase our deep expertise, we created a blog series called “The Digital Build.” In today’s world, software advancements often come with high risks, regardless of improvements in security, high availability, visibility, and robust infrastructure. Every modern technology that aims to ease the ever-increasing demands of IT operation teams also brings new challenges with it.

Much has been said and written about the cloud and the benefits it offers. However, with all these benefits, there are challenges with respect to faster cloud adoption, compliance, and security of the overall environment. Every organization that wants to migrate or implement workloads in the cloud has different needs and priorities, which means there’s no one way for adopting cloud best practices. However, a well-designed and documented execution of the AWS Control Tower is one of the recommended approaches.

Have you ever been worried about organizing and effective management of your 1000s of AWS resources? Have you ever been surprised with higher AWS bills with no detail of underlying services? Then AWS Tags is your friend, it can help you by assigning your custom metadata and enables you to categorize your AWS resources by filtering your metadata. It can help you in the identification of resources, budget planning and several more. This article is based on our collective experience with various clients and briefly talks about some of the best practices for AWS Tagging, strategies, and tools for effective governance.