Infracost Infracost

Infracost is a cloud cost estimation tool designed to help engineers understand the financial impact of changes to their Infrastructure as Code before deployment. It provides detailed cost breakdowns, enabling teams to align infrastructure decisions with budgetary constraints.

Key Features:

• Budget Checks: Automatically evaluates code changes against predefined budgets and triggers approval workflows if costs exceed thresholds.
• FinOps Policies Automation: Enforces best practices during code review by suggesting optimizations (e.g., switching from GP2 to GP3 volumes).
• Tag Management: Ensures 100% tag coverage by identifying non-conforming resources and blocking changes that violate tagging policies.
• Workflow Integration: Seamlessly integrates into GitHub, GitLab, and Jira, providing actionable insights directly within engineering workflows.
• Enterprise Pricing Support: Accommodates custom price books, including discounts from Enterprise Discount Programs (EDPs) and Enterprise Agreements (EAs).

Audience & Benefit: Ideal for engineers and product teams managing cloud infrastructure, Infracost empowers organizations to shift FinOps left by embedding cost awareness and compliance into the development lifecycle. By automating budget checks and enforcing best practices, it ensures that cloud spending remains predictable and aligned with strategic goals.

Infracost can be installed via winget, making it easy to integrate into existing workflows.