Announcing Cost Allocation Tags support for Account Tags

AWS announces Cost Allocation tags support for account tags across AWS Cost Management products, enabling customers with multiple member accounts to utilize their existing AWS Organizations account tags directly in cost management tools. Account tags are applied at the account level in AWS Organizations and automatically apply to all metered usage within tagged accounts, eliminating the need to manually configure and maintain separate account groupings in AWS Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, AWS Budgets, and Cost Categories.

With account tag support, customers can analyze costs by account tag directly in Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports (CUR 2.0 and FOCUS). Customers can set up AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alerts on groups of accounts without configuring lists of account IDs. Customers can also build complex cost categories on top of account tags for further categorization. Account tags enable cost allocation for untaggable resources including refunds, credits, and certain service charges that cannot be tagged at the resource level. When new accounts join the organization or existing accounts are removed, customers simply add or update relevant tags, and the changes automatically apply across all cost management products. To get started, customers apply tags to accounts in the AWS Organizations console, then activate those account tags from the Cost Allocation Tags page in the Billing and Cost Management console. This feature is generally available in all AWS Regions, excluding GovCloud (US) Regions and China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions.

To learn more, see organizing and tracking costs using AWS cost allocation tags.