Tagging for Cost Tracking

Eventually, Azure billing at Cornell will be is automated within KFS, like AWS. Once With that automation is complete, you will be are able to customize which KFS account is charged for individual Azure resources by tagging with a "Cost Center" tag.

Even before the Azure-KFS billing integration is implemented (i.e. right now), you can You can also use CloudCheckr reports to summarize billing data by "Cost Center" so that your financial folks can manually target costs for specific Azure resources to specific KFS accounts. 

Cost Center Tag

• Will be Is used to facilitate automated billing via the Cornell KFS system. Expected integration date: TBA
• Any Azure resource with that tag will be billed directly to the provided KFS account number.
• Anything in a Cornell Azure subscription that is not tagged (or cannot be tagged) will be billed to the Cornell KFS account number associated with the Azure subscription as a whole. 

• Note that applying the "Cost Center" tag to a resource does not retroactively adjust the billing data for the resource, prior to the tag being set.

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