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…
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…
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…
Infracost helps developers and DevOps engineers get cost estimates from their IaC (Infrastructure as Code). Here’s an example of it running: The complexity of cloud costs keeps increasing – When we were building PlanForCloud in 2012 AWS had just hit 10,000 different pricing points for their services – now there are over 300,000. We found existing…