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! Share cost estimates There are a few use cases in which sharing cost estimates with others is really helpful: sharing an estimate…
Summary: we’re excited to announce Infracost v0.9.14 and our new composable GitHub Actions 🎉 This release also includes new GitHub comment and Slack message output formats, 6 new AWS/Azure/Google resources, a summary table in PR comments, improved CLI output, and faster runs. We recommend everyone to upgrade! How did we get here? It’s a bit noisy! We’d…
We released Infracost v0.9.12 recently, you can upgrade to use these features. This release includes many bug fixes and we have made Infracost a lot faster to run! Improved CLI output We’ve simplified the output for AWS S3 and CloudFront. Previously these resources had over 50 lines of output due to their complicated pricing models. We now…
We released Infracost v0.9.9 recently, you can upgrade to use these features. Fetch usage from CloudWatch When it comes to estimates for resources where the cost fully depends on usage (e.g. AWS S3 or Lambda), we have a usage file, in which users can define how much of those resources they will use. This requires you to manually…
We released Infracost v0.9.7 recently, you can upgrade to use these features. Currency conversion You can now use infracost configure set currency to set your preferred currency (e.g. EUR, BRL or INR). Any ISO 4217 currency code should work, for example use XAG to see how much Silver you’re spending on the cloud 😂 The environment variable INFRACOST_CURRENCY can be used to set…
The Cloud Pricing API is an GraphQL-based API that includes all public prices from AWS, Azure and Google; it contains over 3 million prices! The prices are automatically updated via a weekly job. We needed a multi-cloud pricing API that we could use to explore pricing data structures (e.g. what are the various price components for AWS EC2) and…
In June we focused on integrations and adding more resource coverage. You can upgrade to the latest version (v0.9.2) to pickup the new features. If you are using v0.8 please follow the v0.9 migration guide. ⚙️ Integrations Infracost already has CI/CD integrations with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Atlantis, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines and Jenkins. This list keeps growing, so…
I sat down with David Julia, who is the Head of Engineering at Eagle.io to talk about cost attribution, why it matters, who should care and how Eagle.io achieves this. We worked through their use-case, their tech stack, the tools they use, what worked and what did not work, and ultimately how they have achieved cloud cost attribution….
As Infracost has hit 3,000 GitHub stars 🎉, I wanted to share some thoughts as to why GitHub stars matter. Why do people star repos? There are two main reasons why people star GitHub projects: The latter is why I personally star projects. Regardless of whether I’ve used the project in the past, using it…
Two big milestones to celebrate this month: Infracost now supports over 100 AWS and Google resources and we have over 100 people in our community Slack channel. You can upgrade to the latest version (v0.8.6) to pickup the new features. If you are using v0.7 (or older) please follow the v0.8 migration guide. 📉 EC2 reserved instances You can now do what-if anlaysis…
Last week David Nunez (Documentation Manager at Stripe) and Stephanie Blotner (Technical Writer, Manager at Uber) sat down with me to review our docs. We also discussed feature-based vs task-based docs and how early-stage startups should think about technical documentation as a key part of their product. David and Stephanie have around 20 years of experience…
March was busy as we added major new features and had Y Combinator’s demo day, where Hassan (our CEO) delivered an awesome 60 second pitch on a Zoom call with hundreds of investors! You can upgrade to the latest version (v0.8.3) to pickup the new features. If you are using v0.7 (or older) please follow the v0.8 migration guide. 🗒️…