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Tagging, labels, and governance

Tagging, labels, and governance

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Tagging, labels, and governance

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- [Instructor] Cloud computing became incredibly popular due to its scalability and flexibility, especially when provisioning infrastructure on demand. As the number of resources grows in the cloud, managing and organizing them effectively becomes a pain point. Today we will discuss and define the solutions in a cloud context, which are tagging, labels and governance. To start, cloud tags are metadata that you can associate with your cloud resources. In most cases, this will be key value pairs that provide additional context such as where the resource is deployed or the environment that it's deployed into, or even the business unit of your organization it belongs to. If you take a look at the image, you can see the tags for industry bucket that is deployed in the development environment. Labels are an alternative to cloud tags, but they serve a similar purpose. The key difference is the level of functionality or scope for labels, which is incredibly dependent on the provider or…

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