An organization has two businesses that are developing different software products. They are using a single cloud provider with multiple IaaS instances. The organization identifies that the tracking o

Segregating VLANs and capturing network egress/ingress tracks bandwidth consumption, not the full compute, storage, and licensing costs that drive cloud invoices.

Resource tags are key-value metadata labels applied to cloud instances that allow billing and cost management tools to filter and aggregate spending by business unit, project, or department. By tagging each server with the owning business, cost reports can accurately sum charges per business without restructuring the account hierarchy. All major cloud providers natively support cost allocation reports based on tags.

Splitting the invoice equally does not reflect actual usage and perpetuates the inaccurate cost tracking the organization is trying to resolve.

Creating dedicated subscriptions per business would isolate costs but requires significant account restructuring, migration of existing instances, and ongoing overhead - far more complex than applying tags.