FinOps Without Tagging

Where does your cloud spend actually go?

Most companies can't explain it.

We make it obvious — instantly.

The Problem

You can't accurately allocate shared cloud costs.

Databases. Networking. Load balancers. Storage.

These resources are shared across teams and workloads — but most tools can't attribute them precisely.

The result?

Blind spots hide real costs

Network traffic, shared databases, and multi-tenant resources create cost blind spots that prevent accurate unit economics and margin analysis.

Engineering hours wasted on cost ops

Teams spend hundreds or thousands of hours annually investigating costs and building allocation reports — time that should go to building product.

No accountability without visibility

Without granular cost attribution, teams can't be held accountable for what they consume, leading to unchecked waste and overspending.

Why does this happen?

Most platforms rely on tagging to allocate cloud spend.

Tags are incomplete and inconsistent

On average, only 30–50% of cloud resources are properly tagged. Shared infrastructure like databases, networks, and load balancers is often untaggable or incorrectly attributed.

From infrastructure costs to clear business accountability

What companies see today

EC2$220,000
RDS$110,000
Networking$70,000
S3$80,000
Shared Services???

What Attribute shows

Customer A$182,000
Customer B$96,000
Internal Tools$72,300
Platform$58,900
Waste$69,600

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See what Attribute can save you

Adjust the inputs to match your organization and see projected annual savings across cloud costs, engineering time, and business margins.

Your Organization

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Using lower-bound estimates — results most customers can expect to exceed.

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25 engineers
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Cost Anomalies
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Cloud Savings
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Via team ownership, idle resource elimination & network optimization

Engineering Time
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4,554 hours recovered from tagging, investigation & reporting

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Data-driven pricing, cost driver identification & segment optimization

Detailed Breakdown

Cloud Spend Optimization

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Right-sizing & team ownership$0

Engineering Productivity

Tagging elimination$0
Cost investigation time saved$0
Automated report building$0
Cost anomaly investigation$0
Faster anomaly remediation$0

Business Impact

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Unprofitable segment elimination$0
Cost driver identification$0
Estimated Attribute investment$0
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Time to Value

Traditional tagging approach15 weeks
With AttributeeBPF14 days

15-minute installation. No onboarding. 2-week POC.

Disclaimer: These projections are estimates based on industry benchmarks and aggregated customer data. McKinsey estimates that with FinOps observability, enterprises can save 10–20% of cloud spend (source); our conservative estimates use significantly lower figures. Actual results vary based on your infrastructure, cloud provider mix, and organizational factors. We recommend a 2-week proof of concept to validate these estimates for your specific environment. Schedule a POC to get a personalized assessment.

How It Works

From install to insights in days, not months

01

Install in 15 minutes

Deploy Attribute using your existing deployment tooling. No code changes, no agent configuration, no tagging required.

02

Automatic discovery

The runtime sensor automatically discovers all workloads, maps resource consumption, and automatically maps shared services (databases, load balancers, network, etc.) back to the teams/products that drive them.

03

Business insights

Get unit economics, customer margins, team cost breakdowns, and waste identification. All consumption-based, all accurate, all without tags.

Most organizations allocate less than 50% of their cloud costs. Attribute's lightweight runtime sensor (no code changes) delivers 100% cost visibility — without a single tag.

Trusted By

14K+

Sensors Deployed

$200M+

Cloud Spend Managed

120MB/s

Data Processed

Gartner

Recognized

Attribute's data is truly unmatched. No other solution on the market could deliver the precise customer cost and usage profiles we needed. Within weeks, the data transformed our understanding of cost structures.

JL

Jonathan Langer

COO, Claroty

Stop tagging.
Start attributing.

Get 100% cloud cost visibility in days — not months. No tagging required. 15-minute installation. 2-week POC.