Master FinOps: Tagging & Naming Conventions

About Course

Learn how to create tagging & naming conventions for your AWS, GCP & Azure. Get control of your company Cloud resources and reduce your bill

Allocate your Cloud Costs with Company Tagging Policies and Naming Conventions

Are you throwing money away on cloud resources?

Do you struggle to understand where your cloud spending is going?

Welcome to the Master in FinOps: Naming Conventions and Tagging.

Here, you’ll discover the secrets to efficient cloud cost allocation and resource management in AWS, GCP & Azure.

Without a solid tagging FinOps strategy, you’re likely facing:

· Lack of standardization: Making it impossible to classify and manage your cloud resources effectively.

· Inconsistent naming: Different teams using different names for the same resources, leading to chaos.

· Human error: Increased mistakes in resource naming, causing misallocation and wasted spend.

· Hidden costs: Difficulty in tracking and allocating costs to specific business units or projects.

· Missed opportunities: Inability to leverage automation and policies for cost optimization.

If that’s your case, please continue reading.

Imagine a world where you can effortlessly:

· Optimize resource utilization

· Track every dollar spent in the cloud

· Enforce consistent naming and tagging across your entire organization.

In this course, you’ll learn the proven FinOps strategies and hands-on techniques to achieve just that.

· Gain a competitive edge with in-demand FinOps skills.

· Automate your FinOps processes for maximum efficiency with IaC.

· Eliminate errors with standardized naming conventions and tagging.

· Become a FinOps expert and lead your organization to cloud excellence.

· Identify cost efficiency opportunities by having tools in place to detect them.

Enroll in the Master in FinOps: Tagging & Naming Conventions today and take control of your cloud spending.

Don’t let another dollar go to waste in the cloud!

Limited spots available – sign up now!

Understand how Naming Conventions Work & Their Role in FinOps
Using a naming convention for our cloud resources allows us to:
Infer additional information about the resource by its name
Simplify cloud resources management and inventory
Ensure consistency and standardization
Learn how Tagging can help you allocate costs in Cloud
Comprehend the benefits of tagging within FinOps:
Allows us to filter, classify and group cloud resources based on relevant terms
Enables cost visibility and cost allocation
Simplifies operations and cloud resources maintenance
Automation processes
Automate Tagging for your Cloud environment with Done-for-You policies using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Leveraging IaC to define your tagging and naming convention policies allows us to control our infrastructure with all the benefits of code, such as:
Versioning
Deployment automation consistency,
Standardization,
Work item/bug tracking.
And many more ...
Enforce Tagging & Naming Convention Policies in your Company
Once we have defined a tagging policy, we need to oversee its adoption.
We need to have tools in place to both:
Audit resources compliance to our tagging strategy
Prevent creation of resources that are not compliant to our tagging strategy
Monitoring Tagging & Naming Convention Tools
We'll help you understand all the tools available to create and supervise your tags, along with an example on how to create dashboards.
You'll be able to monitor your tagging across
AWS
GCP
Azure
Kubernetes

Course Content

Naming Conventions Introduction
Learn about naming conventions and its role in FinOps

What is Naming Conventions?

00:20
Naming Conventions vs Tagging

00:00
Style and Formatting for resource names in Azure, AWS and GCP

00:00
Creating your own Naming Convention

00:00
Child and parent resources Naming

00:00
Management Resources and Contaneris naming

00:00
Azure Naming Tool

00:00
Azure CAF Terraform provider

00:00
Tao Yang Powershell Modules

00:00
Examples – Naming Conventions
Code Examples
Slides

00:00
Exercise Explanation

00:00
Prepare your own Naming Convention
Quiz: Naming Conventions Introduction

Tagging Introduction
Learn the basics of Tagging and how to use it for FinOps

Why is Tagging Important

00:00
Tagging Format in Azure

00:00
Tagging Format in AWS

00:00
Tagging Format in GCP

00:00
Creating a Tagging Strategy

00:00
Tagging Definition Cards

00:00
Recommended Mandatory Tags

00:00
Recommended NOn-Mandatory Tags

00:00
Tagging Inheritance in Azure

00:00
Tagging Inheritance in AWS

00:00
Tagging & Cost Allocation – Shared Costs

00:00
Tagging in Kubernetes

00:00
Slides
Exercise Explanation

00:00
Create your own Tagging Strategy
Quiz Tagging Introduction

Terraform Introduction
Extra module to help students that do not know Terraform. Given the relevance of Terraform for doing FinOps as Code, this extra module will help you govern your cloud resources using GitOps (Auto) instead of Click-Ops (Manual)

Infraestructure as Code for Tagging & Naming Conventions
How to control your cost allocation and governance using FinOps as Code.

Why IaC is important in FinOps

00:00
DRY principle and application in IaC

00:00
Example #1 using Terraform in Azure

00:00
Example #2 using Terraform in Azure

00:00
Example #3 using Terraform in Azure

00:00
Example #4 using Terraform in Azure

00:00
Example in AWS

00:00
Example in GCP

00:00
Terraform Modules

00:00
Terraform Checks + Example

00:00
Azure Bicep in Terraform

00:00
AWS cloud formation example

00:00
Kubernetes Tagging Examples in YAML

00:00
Kustomize

00:00
Helm

00:00
Code Examples
Slides
Exercise Explanation

00:00
Exercise: Fix the Terraform Code
Quiz Infraestructure as Code

Enforcing Tagging and Naming Conventions
Learn how to make your company comply to your tagging and naming conventions guidelines using policies

Enforcing Meaning

00:00
Azure Policy

00:00
Example Azure Policies for Tagging

00:00
AWS Config Policies

00:00
AWS Tagging Policies

00:00
AWS SCP Policies

00:00
Comparison between AWS Config, AWS Tag and AWS SCP Policies

00:00
GCP Organization Policies

00:00
Kubernetes Policies using Gatekeeper, Kyverno and Conftest

00:00
Slides
Code Examples
Exercise Explanation

00:00
Exercise – Create Tagging policies
Quiz Enforcing Tagging and Naming Conventions

Monitoring & Governance of Tagging Policies
Learn to evaluate your companies efforts in compliance with your tagging policies and naming conventions

FinOps as Code in Terraform + Examples

00:00
Azure Tagging Governance Example with Resource Graph and KQL

00:00
Az CLI Examples

00:00
AWS Tags Review Example

00:00
GCP Tagging Example

00:00
Kubernetes CLI Examples for tagging

00:00
Azure Log Analytics Workbook to Monitoring Tagging Compliance

00:00
Code Examples
Code Examples (copy)
Slides
Quiz Monitoring & Governance

Show & Tell
Share what you've learned about Tagging and Naming Conventions, and you've applied it to your FinOps Career

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The Master in FinOps: Tagging & Naming Conventions is a must for anyone managing cloud costs. It gives you practical tools to standardize tagging and naming across AWS, GCP & Azure, automate with IaC, and finally take control of cloud spend.

Clear, actionable, and hands-on—this course helps you eliminate waste, improve visibility, and gain in-demand FinOps skills. Highly recommended for cloud pros and IT leaders!

About Course

Allocate your Cloud Costs with Company Tagging Policies and Naming Conventions

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Naming Conventions Introduction Learn about naming conventions and its role in FinOps

What is Naming Conventions?

Naming Conventions vs Tagging

Style and Formatting for resource names in Azure, AWS and GCP

Creating your own Naming Convention

Child and parent resources Naming

Management Resources and Contaneris naming

Azure Naming Tool

Azure CAF Terraform provider

Tao Yang Powershell Modules

Examples – Naming Conventions

Code Examples

Slides

Exercise Explanation

Prepare your own Naming Convention

Quiz: Naming Conventions Introduction

Tagging Introduction Learn the basics of Tagging and how to use it for FinOps

Why is Tagging Important

Tagging Format in Azure

Tagging Format in AWS

Tagging Format in GCP

Creating a Tagging Strategy

Tagging Definition Cards

Recommended Mandatory Tags

Recommended NOn-Mandatory Tags

Tagging Inheritance in Azure

Tagging Inheritance in AWS

Tagging & Cost Allocation – Shared Costs

Tagging in Kubernetes

Slides

Exercise Explanation

Create your own Tagging Strategy

Quiz Tagging Introduction

Terraform Introduction Extra module to help students that do not know Terraform. Given the relevance of Terraform for doing FinOps as Code, this extra module will help you govern your cloud resources using GitOps (Auto) instead of Click-Ops (Manual)

Infraestructure as Code for Tagging & Naming Conventions How to control your cost allocation and governance using FinOps as Code.

Why IaC is important in FinOps

DRY principle and application in IaC

Example #1 using Terraform in Azure

Example #2 using Terraform in Azure

Example #3 using Terraform in Azure

Example #4 using Terraform in Azure

Example in AWS

Example in GCP

Terraform Modules

Terraform Checks + Example

Azure Bicep in Terraform

AWS cloud formation example

Kubernetes Tagging Examples in YAML

Kustomize

Helm

Code Examples

Slides

Exercise Explanation

Exercise: Fix the Terraform Code

Quiz Infraestructure as Code

Enforcing Tagging and Naming Conventions Learn how to make your company comply to your tagging and naming conventions guidelines using policies

Enforcing Meaning

Azure Policy

Example Azure Policies for Tagging

AWS Config Policies

AWS Tagging Policies

AWS SCP Policies

Comparison between AWS Config, AWS Tag and AWS SCP Policies

GCP Organization Policies

Kubernetes Policies using Gatekeeper, Kyverno and Conftest

Slides

Code Examples

Exercise Explanation

Exercise – Create Tagging policies

Quiz Enforcing Tagging and Naming Conventions

Monitoring & Governance of Tagging Policies Learn to evaluate your companies efforts in compliance with your tagging policies and naming conventions

FinOps as Code in Terraform + Examples

Azure Tagging Governance Example with Resource Graph and KQL

Az CLI Examples

AWS Tags Review Example

GCP Tagging Example

Naming Conventions Introduction
Learn about naming conventions and its role in FinOps

Tagging Introduction
Learn the basics of Tagging and how to use it for FinOps

Terraform Introduction
Extra module to help students that do not know Terraform. Given the relevance of Terraform for doing FinOps as Code, this extra module will help you govern your cloud resources using GitOps (Auto) instead of Click-Ops (Manual)

Infraestructure as Code for Tagging & Naming Conventions
How to control your cost allocation and governance using FinOps as Code.

Enforcing Tagging and Naming Conventions
Learn how to make your company comply to your tagging and naming conventions guidelines using policies

Monitoring & Governance of Tagging Policies
Learn to evaluate your companies efforts in compliance with your tagging policies and naming conventions

Show & Tell
Share what you've learned about Tagging and Naming Conventions, and you've applied it to your FinOps Career