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…
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…
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…
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…
Cost policy checks are now reported directly inside pull request comments! Native integration with Open Policy Agent simplifies writing policies that are checked before resources are launched. I love shipping fast! And to ship fast, as engineers we usually automate things: The key benefit of these guardrails is that they fit into my workflow and tell me something…
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…
Last week David Nunez (Documentation Manager at Stripe) and Stephanie Blotner (Technical Writer, Manager at Uber) sat down with me to review our docs. We also discussed feature-based vs task-based docs and how early-stage startups should think about technical documentation as a key part of their product. David and Stephanie have around 20 years of experience…