In 2012, we built a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator for cloud. Companies could use our online calculator to design their desired cloud infrastructure, and our tool would calculate how much it would cost. Now in 2022, 10 years later, we want to kill all cloud cost calculators ☠️ Back in 2012, there were no pricing…
When it comes to cloud costs, the relationship between the engineers who are responsible for purchasing infrastructure and the team leads, managers and FinOps who are responsible for the cloud bills is broken. It turns out the closer you are to the code, the further you are from costs. Let’s look at an example product to…
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. We started Infracost to show engineers how their Infrastructure as Code changes will impact cloud costs before anything goes to production. It felt unfair not to have a…
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. What is Terraform RunTasks Terraform RunTasks is a way to plug-in 3rd party tools directly into the Terraform Cloud workflow…
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. Today, we are excited to release an integration between Infracost and Open Policy Agent (OPA), HashiCorp Sentinel and Conftest. This enables DevOps…
I’m very excited to announce that Infracost has raised $2.2M in seed funding from Sequoia, Y Combinator, SV Angel and Yun-Fang Juan as an angel investor. People are often surprised to learn that DevOps and SREs, who are launching cloud resources are never shown how much these resources are going to cost until they are…
Thanks to our awesome community, I’m very excited to announce that you can now use Infracost to get cloud cost estimates for Microsoft Azure in pull requests. Try it now, it’s free and open source! Cloud costs for engineering teams Cloud costs have become so complex that the industry (ourselves included) started addressing issues around breached…
Over the last 10 years we’ve seen a lot of shadow IT with AWS being used as the infrastructure provider. The AWS bills were put on company credit cards and expensed. Individual business units could spin up the resources they needed and work in an incredibly agile manner. Unfortunately, for the enterprise as a whole…
Most cloud providers enable users to set budget alerts on their actual cloud spend. This is a critical safety net as usage-based resources could incur a lot of cost (e.g. data transfer). There is also another safety net that companies should set up, and that is catching significant cost changes to their infrastructure before going…
Last week I wrote about giving cloud cost estimates to DevOps teams via pull requests as they make changes to infrastructure components. The hope is to create a “Prius Effect” for cloud costs: it was observed that many Prius drivers would drive more efficiently simply because they were presented with immediate feedback on the Prius dashboard. In…
Over the last 10 years we have seen more enterprises give direct cloud access to their developers and DevOps teams. There are many ways this has been achieved, from giving admin logins to the cloud console, to having devs create request tickets to the central IT team, to creating a self-service catalogue in which business…