Tag Management | 3 Min Read

Tag Manager – a Game Changer

Tagging is vitally important to successful computing in the cloud. However, tag practices languish as enterprises focus on other aspects of their cloud activity. The 2022 State of Tag Management in the Cloud report reveals the scope of the problem. Businesses lack consistent tagging policies. Legacy resources require massive effort to tag. Sloppy tag environments defy remedy. These and multiple other issues engender frustration and a “where do we even begin” mindset that deprives businesses of the incredible benefits they could realize with a healthy tag environment.

Announcing Tag Manager

Tag Manager is a cutting-edge SaaS solution offered by CloudSaver that overwhelmingly addresses the frustrations businesses experience with their tagging practices. The benefits conferred by Tag Manager are sweeping in scope. Virtually every major component of your cloud infrastructure is enhanced by its features, enabling you to achieve a robust tag environment. Its powerful features set it apart as the clear leader in the marketplace.

Five Applications

There are five cloud applications that serve to illustrate the need for an effective tagging practice, each of which benefits from robust tag management.

Cost Management

Rightsizing resources, shutting down idle instances, identifying orphaned volumes, and other cost savings are all optimization strategies that can be aggressively pursued by virtue of the visibility gained through Tag Manager

Security

Effective resource tagging through Tag Manager impacts cloud security by significantly reducing an organization’s vulnerability to security risks and closing security gaps in its cloud infrastructure.

Governance

Comprehensive tagging practices are the foundation to achieving high functioning governance in the cloud and Tag Manager strengthens a company’s ability to create and enforce governance policies.

Automation

Tag Manager empowers a company to automatically attach tags that are either standard or user defined.

Performance

The roadblocks to speed, scalability, stability, and resiliency are identified and removed with the visibility obtained by excellent tagging through Tag Manager.

Product Features

What’s under the hood? Tag Manager guides your tagging practices from beginning to end. It equips you to address all your tagging needs with its powerful solutions:

Attach or modify tags on existing resources
Tagging takes place in real-time
Consistently tag across hybrid or multi-cloud environments
Tag keys and values are suggested and spellchecked
Make batch changes – even to existing tags
Detect and batch merge tag variances
Allocate “untaggable” resources
Automatically attach tags at time of deployment

Conclusion

Tag Manager is a game changer. Many organizations do not realize the true breadth of the shortcomings in their tag environment and tag practices or all the benefits to be gained when their tags are healthy. With Tag Manager a continuing stream of benefits is realized, including but not limited to multi-cloud management, chargeback and show back opportunities, improved product ROI, and strong IAM permissions. Cost management, security, governance, automation, and performance each experience significant enhancements that create greater speed, resiliency, and visibility, as well as reliable real-time data for data-driven decision making. A healthy and mature tag environment is achieved. Your bottom line will thank you.

Let’s Start a Conversation

“Given the number of outstanding tags we have the fact that we can go in and modify a ton of tags in 30 minutes is great. There are a lot of features and functionality that are really good. The power of [Tag Manager] is going to my head!”

Cloud Infrastructure Technology Management Lead Associate

Fannie Mae

FEATURE	BENEFIT
Tag Automation & Batch Tag Processing	Employ powerful automation to quickly and accurately tag cloud resources minimizing manual tasks and saving valuable time and effort. Reduce security vulnerabilities and human errors with accurate and swift tagging.
Real-time, Native Cloud Sync	Tag changes are reflected in real-time in native cloud service provider environments. Data is timely and accurate and can be leveraged with additional CloudSaver and third-party tools.
Tag Explorer Query Engine	Utilize our patented filtering and search technology for rapid and efficient location of client data across resources, zones, accounts, and service providers. This capability drastically reduces mean-time-to-resolution by quickly identifying key cloud data. Its deep dive, robust exploration enables you to “find anything.”
Tag Intelligence Dashboards & Tools	Benefit from a guided tag health experience that automatically delivers valuable insights without the need for customized reports or dashboards. These insights cover both your entire tag environment and also specific categories.
Customizable Dashboards	Create customized dashboards to display data according to your specific needs, offering real-time visibility into cloud resources, tags and spend. Obtain timely, accurate, and relevant data for insightful analysis and to identify tagging gaps.
Efficient Tag Remediation	Benefit from suggested, spell-checked tag keys and values – detect and batch merge tag variations.
Legacy Tagging Solutions	Retroactively tag or modify tags on existing legacy resources during cloud migration, either individually or in bulk and eliminate time-consuming manual efforts for smooth integration into your cloud environment.
Multi-Tenant & Multi-Cloud	Manage every cloud data set from a single screen across resources, zones, accounts, and cloud service providers (AWS and Azure).
Tag Policy Compliance Monitoring	Ingest tag policies from native cloud environments to ensure consistent tag syntax and taxonomy.
User Role & Permission Console	Enhance security with Identity and Access Management features contained in the permissions assigned through tagging.
Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Integration	The CloudSaver platform seamlessly incorporates CMDB data related to known cloud infrastructure, offering precise control, efficient tagging, and enhanced visibility by viewing, filtering, and sorting cloud resources based on CMDB data.