May 2023: 100 New Resources, Project-Level Guardrails, Viewer Role & Customer Highlights!

May 2023: 100 New Resources, Project-Level Guardrails, Viewer Role & Customer Highlights!

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…

April 2023: Unblock Guardrail Pull Requests, Dynamic Config Files & Many New Resources!

April 2023: Unblock Guardrail Pull Requests, Dynamic Config Files & Many New Resources!

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…

Mar 2023: Free GitHub App Integration, SOC2 Type II, And Usage File Improvements!

Mar 2023: Free GitHub App Integration, SOC2 Type II, And Usage File Improvements!

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…

Feb 2023: Cost Savings From Guardrails, Faster Runs, And Terragrunt Improvements!

Feb 2023: Cost Savings From Guardrails, Faster Runs, And Terragrunt Improvements!

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…

December 2022: Guardrails, Ppolicies, Jira Integration, README Badge, And Override Cloud Region!

December 2022: Guardrails, Ppolicies, Jira Integration, README Badge, And Override Cloud Region!

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…

November 2022: Actual Costs, Data Transfer Costs, And Pull Requests Status Filters!

November 2022: Actual Costs, Data Transfer Costs, And Pull Requests Status Filters!

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…

October 2022: Usage Pprofiles, GitHub App, Weekly Reports, And Branch Filters!

October 2022: Usage Pprofiles, GitHub App, Weekly Reports, And Branch Filters!

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…

September 2022: Dashboard Summary, Team Management, Repos, And Projects!

September 2022: Dashboard Summary, Team Management, Repos, And Projects!

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…

August 2022: Infracost Cloud, VS Code Tree View, And Private Rregistry Modules!

August 2022: Infracost Cloud, VS Code Tree View, And Private Rregistry Modules!

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…

July 2022: VS Code Extension, Custom Project Names, And 7,000 GitHub Stars!

July 2022: VS Code Extension, Custom Project Names, And 7,000 GitHub Stars!

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…