Tag Groups (former Virtual Tags)

Unify inconsistent cloud tags into meaningful, reusable groupings

Overview

In modern cloud environments, inconsistent tagging is a common challenge. Different teams, tools, or automation scripts may use variations of tag keys and values — making it hard to filter, group, or report consistently across your cloud assets.

To solve this, Umbrella introduces Tag Groups: a powerful feature that lets you define and standardize tag value groups across multiple tag keys and variations.




What Are Tag Groups?

Tag Groups allow you to:

  • Map multiple tag values (from different keys or spelling variations) into a single standardized label.
  • Use these unified groups across filters, dashboards, reports, savings plans, budgeting, and recommendations.
  • Cleanly represent inconsistent or messy tag data — without changing the source tags on the cloud provider.

🔧 Use Case Example

Let’s say your teams have the following inconsistent environment tags across AWS, GCP and Azure:

KeyValue
EnvironmentProd
envproduction
DeploymentProdyuction (typo)

With Tag Groups, you can create a group called:

  • Group Name: Production
  • Group Values: Prod, production, Prodyuction

Now, whenever you use the Tag Group: Production in filters or reporting, all resources matching any of these values will be included, regardless of how they were originally tagged.


How to Create a Tag Group

  1. Navigate to Cost Allocation → Tag Groups
  2. Click “Create Tag Group”
  3. Provide:
  • Group Name (e.g., Production)
  • Add the tag values that should be mapped to this group
    (e.g., prod, production, Prodyuction)
  • Click Save

You can now use this Tag Group in:

  • Cost & Usage
  • Assets
  • Business Mapping
  • Budget