In 2009 I started my PhD research to focus on the decisions that needed to be made for an organization to adopt public clouds. These included the benefits, the risks and the costs of using such systems. My aim was to create a set of vendor neutral tools that would assist decision makers during the process. At the end, I had developed three tools:

1. Cloud Suitability Checklist: A set of questions to help asses the suitability of public clouds for a given application.
2. Benefits & Risk assessment: A list of benefits and risks that provides a starting point for organizations to talk about cloud adoption.
3. Cloud cost modeling: A tool that enables architects to design a system (compute, databases, storage, network etc) with built-in elasticity and growth, and create a 3-year cloud cost forecast using public cloud prices. This tool turned into a startup called PlanForCloud and was acquired by RightScale:

Infracost v0.9.24 is live! We've got a new Get Started guide that uses the parse HCL option, a way to run diffs between branches, direct integration with Terraform Cloud, and new resources.

Today, I’m super excited to announce, alongside our partner HashiCorp, that we have launched a direct integration into Terraform Cloud using the new Terraform run tasks feature.

In September 2021, Hashicorp announced a beta feature called Terraform RunTasks. In this blog, I’d like to give the why, how and what of this feature as well as which tools currently work with it.

Infracost v0.9.21 is live! We added support for cost policies into the CLI and pull request comments, added many more resources, and updated the Jenkins and CircleCI integrations to support the latest features.

Cost policy checks are now reported directly inside pull request comments! Native integration with Open Policy Agent simplifies writing policies that are checked before resources are launched.

Infracost v0.9.19 is live! We're experimenting with parsing HCL (we need your help), partnered with GitLab, improved Bitbucket support, published a Windows Chocolatey package, and added many new resources...

Infracost v0.9.17 is live! There's a new Atlantis integration, native Azure DevOps extension, cost policies with Open Policy Agent, Sentinel and more.

Today, we are excited to release an integration between Infracost and Open Policy Agent (OPA), HashiCorp Sentinel and Conftest. This enables DevOps teams to set policies on cost estimates before resources are launched.

Summary: Infracost v0.9.16 is live! You can now share cost estimates with colleagues, managers and with your external clients. We have also released our new composable GitLab CI template, and 10 new AWS/Azure/Google resources. Upgrade now!