Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Be proactive with your cloud costs

📰 Hacker News · hkh

Hi, we are Ali, Hassan, and Alistair, co-founders of Infracost ( https://www.infracost.io/ ). Infracost helps engineers see the cost of each Terraform change before launching resources. When changes are made, it posts a comment with the cloud cost impact. For example, “you’ve added 2 instances and volumes, and change an instance type from medium to large, your bill will increase by 25% next month, from $1000 to $1250 per month”. We launched in February 2021 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588 ), and Infracost is now being actively used by over 3,000 companies. However, there is a shift happening in the cloud cost management space. New teams, called FinOps teams (a combination of "Finance" and "DevOps"), are being formed within companies to manage cloud costs. One of the first tasks assigned to these teams is to determine "who is using what" - that is, which teams, business units, products, etc. are spending the mos

Published 9 Aug 2023
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