What is Infracost and how does it work? Infracost is a new open-source tool that aims to reduce cloud costs. It allows developers and small to medium businesses to integrate it into their CI/CD pipeline, enabling them to make infrastructure changes as a code file and create a pull/merge request. By measuring the expenses of pull requests and peer review with code, Infracost provides cost visibility and estimates before any resources are launched. It analyzes over 3 million pricing options to give a clear and understandable cost estimate. Infracost directly integrates into the developer’s workflow, ensuring that everyone knows the cost impact of changes without leaving the workflow. Additionally, it offers features such as cloud cost policies and guardrails, allowing DevOps teams to create policies based on best practices. It also provides scenario modeling and what-if analysis capabilities, automatically generating detailed and shareable cost estimates that can be sent to clients and managers with different scenarios.
