Managing cloud costs effectively is more than just a financial imperative; it’s a critical competency for organizations operating in cloud environments. With various cloud services consuming a sizeable portion of IT budgets, it’s crucial to have a comprehensive cloud cost optimization strategy in place. This guide outlines actionable strategies to save significant costs without sacrificing…
Navigating the maze of cloud cost management can be a daunting task. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud infrastructure for their operations, it’s crucial to have a cloud cost management strategy. This guide breaks down the essentials of managing and optimizing your cloud costs. What is Cloud Cost Management? Cloud cost management controls and optimizes…
Launching the new FinOps policy checker Today, we’re very excited to announce a new FinOps policies capability for Infracost Cloud. You can now check for FinOps best practices directly in engineering workflows before infrastructure code has been deployed. This has many benefits: Helping engineers with FinOps Pop quiz: which of the 46 out of the…
We released major improvements to the tagging policies feature to simplify identifying and fixing tagging issues. We also re-designed the Infracost report emails to summarize key changes across your repos. The CLI also got many bug fixes and big performance improvements. Log in to Infracost Cloud or upgrade to CLI version v0.10.29 to use the new features. Tagging policy…
We recently released a new GitLab App that enables you to quickly add Infracost to all of your repos with a few clicks. We also released a new Jira app so product managers and budget owners know the cost impact of a feature request or change, before deployment! There’s also a new version of the…
Last month we made a big push to add more than 100 resources across AWS, Azure and Google. Infracost Guardrails now enable you set thresholds against projects inside pull requests. There’s also a new Viewer role, so you can add engineering teams to the view all cost changes, guardrails, and policies. Log in to Infracost Cloud or…
The all-new Infracost Guardrails now enable you to approve and unblock pull requests (PRs) that were blocked by the budget guardrail. This month’s release includes dynamic and org-level config files, which will help with repos that have multiple Terraform projects (e.g. mono repos or teragrunt repos). We have also added support for more AWS and…
We’re excited to announce that we’re making the Infracost GitHub App free for everyone so you can put cost estimates everywhere quickly 🎉 We also passed our SOC2 Type 2 audit, added support for wildcards in the usage file, and redesigned the cost estimate page. Log in to Infracost Cloud or upgrade to CLI version v0.10.18 to use the…
We kicked-off 2023 by doubling down on helping companies optimize cloud costs by assisting engineers directly in CI/CD workflows. We started tracking cost savings from Guardrails. We also made Infracost run faster for by only running on changed directories, caching modules, and running projects in parallel. On top of that, we made numerous bug fixes…
It’s been a big month, with many new capabilities and features! You can now create Guardrails to control costs by monitoring pull requests and triggering actions when thresholds are exceeded. You can also use cost policies to scan your code repos for money saving opportunities (e.g. change gp2 to gp3 volume types) and create tasks to help engineering teams…
This month, we have a few big changes: Upgrade to version v0.10.13 and log in to Infracost Cloud to see the new features. Actual costs and data transfer Cloud costs are a spectrum: when a new system is being designed, you can get a rough cost estimate; when you have infrastructure code, Infracost can generate estimates automatically. That automation…
This month we have something for everyone: Upgrade to version v0.10.12 and log in to Infracost Cloud to see the new features. Usage profiles Companies dealing with a large number of services often find it easier to categorize their service usage or traffic into low/medium/high profiles. This enables them to get a rough cost estimate for many services quickly…