Show HN: See the impact on your cloud costs as you code

• infracost

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  Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests💰📉 Shift FinOps Left!

  

  Hi, my name is Owen and I recently started working at Infracost (YC W21 batch) (https://infracost.io). Infracost shows engineers how much their code changes will cost on the cloud before it gets deployed. For example, when an engineer changes a cloud resource (like an AWS virtual machine), Infracost posts a comment in CI/CD telling them "This change is going to increase your costs by 25% next month from $500/m to $625/m".

  Previously, I was one of the founders of tfsec, the code security scanner; I quickly realised that identifying issues in your code (especially infrastructure code, i.e. Terraform) as soon as possible was the best defence. A lot of the principles of code scanning for security misconfigurations translate well to identifying cost impact. Many times, people are surprised by how cloud resources are priced and how expensive they can be. It is also really unfair that engineers are never given a ‘checkout screen’ when buying infrastructure, and then are blamed for breaking cloud budgets.

  I believe engineers should have access to key information about cloud costs at the time of writing the code. So, I spent some time and built an Infracost plugin for the IntelliJ family of IDEs (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/24761-infracost).

  With this plugin installed, as you develop your Terraform code, you will get the cost impact of your current project, and quickly see where the expensive resources are hiding in your code (just hit save & it will recalculate). Two main use cases I’m thinking of:

  - As you change resources, you can see the cost impact. For example, I increased the instance size from my Dev to Prod environment to handle the prod-sized workloads, and I can see the increase costs.

• InfluxDB

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  Purpose built for real-time analytics at any scale. InfluxDB Platform is powered by columnar analytics, optimized for cost-efficient storage, and built with open data standards.

  

• jetbrains-infracost

  1 5 7.5 Kotlin

  See cost estimates for Terraform right in your editor💰📉

  

  Thanks for the feedback - appreciate the comments on the video, I can see that without audio the first minute or so is a bit dull -

  Hope this Gif is clearer - https://github.com/infracost/jetbrains-infracost/blob/244ee8...

• eksctl

  65 4,888 9.5 Go

  The official CLI for Amazon EKS

  

  I just gave this a try with https://github.com/eksctl-io/eksctl/blob/main/examples/01-si...

  ChatGPT gave me a decent chuck of terraform and running Infracost against it gave me a $515 monthly cost.

  If you go to the settings of the plugin and get the absolute path of infracost binary then run

  infracost breakdown --path .

  in the dir with the terraform, does it give you a breakdown?

• vscode-infracost

  30 1,796 6.4 TypeScript

  See cost estimates for Terraform right in your editor💰📉

  

  This is effectively what Infracost Cloud is (https://www.infracost.io/)

  It adds things like management of guardrails and policies that can be maintained by a finops role, or engineering manager. PRs can block or notify if thresholds are going to be breached by a specific PR.

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