The Real-World Struggle That Sparked Cloudshot’s Tag Hygiene Tool

 The Real-World Struggle That Sparked Cloudshot’s Tag Hygiene Tool

Like many cloud teams, we thought our tagging policy was “good enough.”

We had docs. We had some rules. We assumed people were following them.

Until our Cloud Architect ran a scan.

Using our visual engine prototype, he reviewed AWS, Azure, and GCP tagging across our infra. The findings?

  • Legacy EC2s with obsolete labels

  • Orphaned subnets with no owner

  • A billing file that might as well have been gibberish

He didn’t complain. He just asked:
“Who owns this mess?”

That question changed everything.

We:

  • Built a company-wide tagging standard

  • Identified critical tags by team, resource, and environment

  • Rebooted our process with scripts and syncs

And still... drift crept in.

That’s when it hit us:
Tagging problems aren’t a people issue—they’re a visibility issue.

Cloudshot’s Tag Hygiene Feature Was Born from That Insight

We needed a tool that worked for real teams, with real chaos.

So we created:

✅ A cross-cloud tagging dashboard that auto-updates
✅ Drift detection and alerts by environment and team
✅ Tag health scoring to measure compliance and progress
✅ Interactive visual maps to trace untagged resources to the source

The results?

  • 92% less “unknown” spend

  • 100% tagging compliance on production

  • Cross-functional accountability across the org

One of our users said:
“It gave us tagging clarity like never before.”

We built it for us. We refined it for you.

👉 Try Cloudshot today—let tagging clean itself up.

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