Cost Center

Will be used to help facilitate billing.

Tag/key name: "cost_center"

Values:

• A seven-character account number. OR
• An account number, followed by a hyphen, followed by a sub-account number. OR
• A fully qualified KFS accounting string as outlined here: https://www.dfa.cornell.edu/accounting/chartofaccounts/transactionstring

Optional Tags

• "Technical Contact"
  • This should be a netid
• "Functional Contact"
  • This should be a netid
• "Environment"
  • dev
  • test
  • stage
  • prod
• "Application"
  • Identifies the software application this Amazon resource supports.
  • Resources used by multiple applications could have a suggested value of “Infrastructure”
  • the application should be in all lowercase

How to enforce tagging

In cloudcheckr: http://support.cloudcheckr.com/reports/cost-reporting/cost-related-tag-reports/.