InfraCost Consulting

Infracost is a cloud cost estimation tool that integrates with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks. It provides detailed cost breakdowns and forecasts for cloud resources before they are deployed, enabling more informed budgeting decisions and cost optimization in cloud environments. Infracost supports various IaC tools, enhancing cloud cost visibility and control.

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• Aligns financial, technology, and business teams for optimized cloud spending and resource utilization.
• Provides transparency in cloud costs, aiding in budget management and cost allocation.
• Encourages informed decision-making through real-time financial metrics and analytics.
• Facilitates cost efficiency by identifying and eliminating wasteful spending in cloud services.
• Supports strategic planning by forecasting future costs and aligning them with business objectives.
• Promotes accountability and cost-conscious culture across all departments.
• Enhances agility in financial operations, adapting quickly to changes in cloud usage and pricing.
  

• It predicts cloud costs before deployment for budget management
• It works with Terraform for automated cost estimates in development
• Supports multiple cloud providers for cost comparison
• Offers detailed cost breakdowns to identify expensive components
• Highlights savings and suggests cheaper alternatives for optimization
• Integrates with CI/CD pipelines for continuous cost assessment
• Improves team decision-making with accessible cost data
• Adds cost impact analysis to pull requests for easier reviews
• Promotes sustainability by encouraging efficient cloud use
• Open-source, allowing community contributions and updates
  

Our experience with InfraCost helped us build repeatable delivery patterns that bring cloud cost visibility into day-to-day engineering—so teams can estimate, review, and govern spend before infrastructure changes are applied. We used InfraCost in real IaC and CI/CD workflows to reduce surprise bills, improve forecasting, and make cost impact part of normal technical decision-making.

Some of the things we did include:

• Integrated InfraCost into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and similar) to post cost diffs directly on pull requests/merge requests and keep cost review close to code.
• Paired InfraCost runs with Terraform plan outputs to generate consistent, environment-aware estimates across modules, workspaces, and accounts/subscriptions/projects.
• Implemented policy-style guardrails using configurable thresholds (warn/block) so high-impact cost changes were automatically flagged and routed to the right approvers (platform, FinOps, product owners).
• Standardized tagging, naming, and cost attribution conventions so InfraCost breakdowns mapped cleanly to teams, products, and cost centers across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Built reusable CI templates and shared pipeline components to roll out InfraCost across many repositories without duplicating logic or creating drift.
• Optimized high-cost infrastructure choices early (e.g., database tiers, NAT gateways, load balancers, storage classes) by proposing lower-cost alternatives before deployment.
• Added ChatOps-style notifications (PR comments and Slack/Teams messages) to make cost changes easy to interpret without leaving developer workflows.
• Validated cost impact for Kubernetes-adjacent infrastructure during cluster upgrades, node pool resizing, and multi-environment rollouts, including shared services and networking.
• Hardened CI execution by securing credentials, isolating runners, and applying least-privilege access patterns for InfraCost runs and cloud provider access.
• Delivered enablement sessions and runbooks so teams could tune thresholds, interpret outputs, and maintain the integration over time with confidence.

This delivery experience helped us accumulate significant knowledge across InfraCost use-cases—from PR-based cost visibility to governance and forecasting—and enables us to implement high-quality InfraCost setups that fit your IaC standards and delivery process. For deeper tool context, see Infracost.

Some of the things we can help you do with InfraCost include:

• Run an InfraCost assessment and produce a cost-risk report that highlights high-impact resources, tagging gaps, and quick-win savings.
• Create an adoption roadmap that defines where cost checks belong in your SDLC (PRs, CI, release gates) and how teams will act on the results.
• Implement InfraCost with Terraform workflows to generate automated cost estimates on every pull request and infrastructure change.
• Integrate cost visibility into CI/CD pipelines with policy-style guardrails (budgets, thresholds, and approvals) so changes don’t exceed agreed spend limits.
• Standardize cost allocation with tagging/labeling conventions and enforce them via IaC modules and pipeline checks for consistent reporting.
• Optimize infrastructure designs by comparing alternatives (instance families, storage tiers, data transfer patterns) and validating tradeoffs before deployment.
• Tune and troubleshoot InfraCost configuration, pricing sources, and edge cases to improve estimate accuracy across multi-account and multi-region environments.
• Enable teams through hands-on training, documentation, and reusable templates so engineers can interpret estimates and make cost-aware decisions.
• Operationalize ongoing FinOps practices with dashboards, recurring reviews, and continuous improvement loops tied to engineering delivery.