towardsthecloud / towardsthecloud/cloudburn

Prioritize missing allocation tags by untagged spend

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enhancement
Dominant language
TypeScript
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Description

What

Prioritize missing cost-allocation tags by the spend attached to untagged resources.

Why

CLDBRN-AWS-TAGGING-1 finds resources without user-created tags, but a count treats a tiny test resource like an expensive production workload. Dollar-weighted evidence makes the finding useful for FinOps prioritization.

Details

  • Add configuration for required allocation-tag keys and a minimum unallocated-spend threshold.
  • Use Cost Explorer data to calculate current-month and recent full-month spend where each required tag is absent or empty.
  • Group findings by account, service, and missing tag key, with affected spend and currency as evidence.
  • Return diagnostics when a requested cost-allocation tag is not active or Cost Explorer cannot provide the dimension.
  • Discovery only. Keep resource-level tagging hygiene and spend-level allocation coverage as separate rules.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by locating the implementation of CLDBRN-AWS-TAGGING-1 and the Cost Explorer integration. Trace how rule configuration and findings are represented, then define completion as spend-weighted grouping by account, service, and missing tag key, with thresholds, currency evidence, and diagnostics for inactive tags or unavailable dimensions.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws, typescript
Domain
cloud, data, fintech-quant
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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