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…

May 2022: Super-Fast CLI, Diff Between Branches, And Terraform Cloud Run Tasks

May 2022: Super-Fast CLI, Diff Between Branches, And Terraform Cloud Run Tasks

Infracost v0.9.24 is live! We’ve got a new Get Started guide that uses the parse HCL option, a way to run diffs between branches, direct integration with Terraform Cloud, and new resources. Super-fast CLI We updated the Get Started guide to use the new parse HCL option. This option received very positive community feedback as it enables the CLI…

April 2022: New Cost Policies, More Resources, Jenkins, And CircleCI!

April 2022: New Cost Policies, More Resources, Jenkins, And CircleCI!

Infracost v0.9.21 is live! We added support for cost policies into the CLI and pull request comments, added many more resources, and updated the Jenkins and CircleCI integrations to support the latest features. Catch mistakes & budget-breaking changes in CI We added native support for cost policies into the CLI and pull request comments. DevOps and FinOps teams can…

March 2022: Parsing HCL, GitLab Partnership, Bitbucket, Chocolatey, And New Resources!

March 2022: Parsing HCL, GitLab Partnership, Bitbucket, Chocolatey, And New Resources!

Infracost v0.9.19 is live! We’re experimenting with parsing HCL (we need your help), partnered with GitLab, improved Bitbucket support, published a Windows Chocolatey package, and added many new resources… Parsing HCL Imagine you could add Infracost to repo README files, get cost estimates for Terraform modules before using them in your projects, and even see cost estimates in Visual Studio…

February 2022: New Atlantis Integration, Azure DevOps Extension, Cost Policies And Popular Use-Cases

February 2022: New Atlantis Integration, Azure DevOps Extension, Cost Policies And Popular Use-Cases

Infracost v0.9.17 is live! There’s a new Atlantis integration, native Azure DevOps extension, cost policies with Open Policy Agent, Sentinel and more. New Atlantis integration The new Infracost Atlantis integration enables you to: Follow our migration guide if you used the old bash-based integration. New Azure DevOps extension The new Infracost Azure DevOps extension is live in the Azure Marketplace! These JavaScript tasks…