You can now show the cloud cost impact of feature requests to Product Managers and Owners directly in their workflow, before features are shipped to production. Overview Cloud costs are hard to understand due to the complex pricing models used by the cloud providers. If cloud pricing was easy to understand it would be easier…
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…
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…
Infracost was recently named a cool vendor on Gartner’s Platform Engineering list. This is super exciting for us as a project, but also a great direction forward for engineers and our community as a whole 🎉 Let me take a step back. In the cloud cost space, every solution designed has started from the same…
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…
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…
We released a new dashboard summary table, support for team management, and introduced concepts for Repos and Projects. Upgrade to version v0.10.11 to pickup numerous bug fixes and the new features. We’ve also joined the FinOps Foundation as Infracost Cloud is helping FinOps teams see all upcoming code changes and their cost impact from a central place. There are…
Two years ago we published our first blog titled Infracost – cloud costs for devs. Infracost is now used by thousands of engineers across many CI/CD systems, 3rd party integrations and even VS Code, so they can see how much their code changes will cost before resources are launched. Today I’m excited to announce Infracost Cloud – our SaaS product…
We released the Infracost VS Code extension, which was so popular that it hit the front page of Hacker News. That pushed Infracost to over 7,000 GitHub stars ⭐ We also released v0.10.6 that lets you customize project names, and exclude paths when running with large repos. VS Code extension The Infracost VS Code extension shows cost…
Back in February, we started an ambitious journey: remove our dependency on the Terraform CLI by parsing code directly! We’re excited to announce Infracost v0.10, which completes that journey 🎉 Infracost is now much faster, simpler to add to CI/CD, and does not need cloud creds since a Terraform plan is not required. Infracost v0.10…