Departments will fund their own apps in a shared landing zone. Leadership wants showback from day one of each new solution. What must architects implement at launch?
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Short Explanation
Showback needs nametags on the gear from minute one—department, app, environment. Untagged piles at year-end become a forensic nightmare, not a finance report.
Full Explanation
Consistent cost-allocation tags applied at launch enable Cost Explorer, Budgets, and CUR-based showback to departments. Retroactive manual allocation and tagging only the management account fail multi-account visibility. Tags do not meaningfully violate application SLAs and are a standard expenditure-awareness control.