In 2023, cloud cost complexity kept increasing, and many new cloud cost management tools were launched. We also saw existing players launch new features and capabilities to help their customers reduce cloud costs, improve their cloud budget, and eliminate cloud waste. The cloud providers released new capabilities, AWS Cost Explorer released a whole set of new features…
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…
New feature announcement: FinOps tags can now be checked directly in the engineering workflow in CI/CD, before anything goes to production, by shifting them left. Both the key and value can be verified. If the tagging policy has not been followed, the engineer will be notified and the code pull request can be blocked until…
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…
Since launching Infracost two years ago, I’ve been asked about the key differences between the AWS Cost Calculator and Infracost. In this blog post, I will compare the two tools. Update AWS has now deprecated the AWS simple cost calculator – the only other option left is the AWS Pricing calculator. The AWS Cloud Cost Calculator…
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…
When considering cost optimization for the cloud, an equation can be used to structure the problem. Each component of the formula can be refined and delegated to the appropriate roles. The formula is: Cloud Costs = Usage x Unit Price A few years ago, I spoke with a user who proposed the equation above for…
I’m very excited to announce that Infracost has achieved SOC2 Type 2 certification. This is a significant milestone for us as it reinforces our commitment to security, privacy, and reliability. We understand the importance of maintaining high standards of security and compliance, especially for our enterprise customers who rely on our platform to help them…
The new Infracost Guardrails feature enables you to setup cloud cost guardrails directly in CI/CD. If a pull request’s cost estimate exceeds a threshold, a custom notification is sent; the pull request can even be blocked till it has been approved. Status quo Cloud costs have traditionally been managed after money has been spent; our…