Tag Intelligence

Environment Summary

Most companies recognize they have tagging problems but don't know where to start fixing them. An Environment Summary provides an overview of your tag environment, revealing how many resources are taggable, the actual number of tags applied, average tags per resource, and an overall tag health score — a crucial metric indicating the health and completeness of your tagging environment.

Tag Health

The Tag Health score consists of three components:

Coverage measures what percentage of your resources are actually tagged. Many organizations tag only a fraction of available resources, limiting their ability to aggregate costs and perform analysis based on tags.

Compliance evaluates adherence to tag policies. Tag Manager assesses every tag on every resource against your policies to calculate an overall compliance score.

Clarity addresses syntax-related issues. The system identifies inconsistencies, such as five variations of an application key (different capitalization, misspellings). Tag Consolidation tools then unify these mislabeled keys into standardized names.

Tag Health Components

The tag health score helps identify problem areas. Tag Manager provides tools to address each issue. You can break down scores by resource type (EBS volumes, EC2 instances, RDS) or by owner to see individual tagging performance. You can also view metrics by application for detailed filtering.

Tag Consolidation

This feature cleans up syntax issues with tag keys. For example, if 72 resources use "Application" correctly and 11 use lowercase "application," you can select the incorrect version and update all instances simultaneously. Tag Manager handles these changes across hundreds of accounts and multiple regions in one operation, then automatically updates the resources.