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Infrastructure Cost Attribution

Implements cloud cost tagging, FinOps dashboards, and per-team/per-product cost allocation using AWS Cost Explorer, GCP BigQuery billing exports, and Kubernetes resource quotas for accountability.

Gold
v1.0.00 activationsDevOps & InfrastructureEngineeringadvanced

SupaScore

84
Research Quality (15%)
8.5
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.5
Practical Utility (15%)
8.5
Completeness (10%)
8.5
User Satisfaction (20%)
8
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.5

Best for

  • Implementing cost allocation tagging strategies across AWS, GCP, and Azure with per-team/per-product attribution
  • Building FinOps dashboards using AWS Cost Explorer, GCP BigQuery billing exports, and Kubernetes cost monitoring
  • Designing chargeback/showback systems for internal cost accountability and unit economics tracking
  • Deploying OpenCost or Kubecost for namespace-level Kubernetes resource cost attribution
  • Creating automated budget alerts and cost anomaly detection for multi-cloud environments

What you'll get

  • Hierarchical tagging taxonomy with mandatory tags (environment, team, product, cost-center) and enforcement policies using SCPs, Config rules, and Terraform validation
  • Complete billing data pipeline architecture with CUR/BigQuery export configuration, ETL jobs, and unified cost data warehouse schema
  • Kubernetes cost attribution setup with OpenCost deployment, resource quotas, admission controller policies, and namespace-level cost dashboards
Not designed for ↓
  • ×General cloud cost reduction strategies without attribution requirements
  • ×Basic billing analysis or one-time cost reports without ongoing allocation systems
  • ×Pure financial budgeting without technical implementation of tagging and monitoring
Expects

Current cloud providers, monthly cloud spend, existing tagging coverage percentage, organizational structure (teams/products/cost centers), and FinOps maturity level.

Returns

Detailed implementation plan with tagging taxonomies, enforcement mechanisms, billing data pipelines, and dashboard designs with specific tool configurations.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

finopscloud-cost-managementcost-allocationtagging-strategyaws-cost-explorergcp-billingkubernetes-costopencostkubecostshowback-chargebackbudget-alertsunit-economics

Research Foundation: 8 sources (1 industry frameworks, 5 official docs, 1 books, 1 paper)

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Version History

v1.0.02/15/2026

Initial release

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