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Fun fact... HashiCorp actually got a patent around (part of) this https://patents.google.com/patent/US11347559B2/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US11347559B2

• debarshri 4y ago
  Terraform cloud does have a cost estimation feature [1]. You might have to upgrade your plan to access it. [1] https://www.terraform.io/cloud-docs/cost-estimation https://www.terraform.io/cloud-docs/cost-estimation
  • akh 4y ago
    In case you're wondering: https://www.infracost.io/docs/faq/#whats-the-difference-between-infracost-and-terraform-clouds-cost-estimation https://www.infracost.io/docs/faq/#whats-the-difference-betw...
• mustava 4y ago
  Seriously? Does that mean any other provisioning method isn't able to estimate a cost without licensing this? E.g cloudformation?
  • myroon5 4y ago
    Although there's not much coverage, CloudFormation had prior art for a decade before this patent: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-coverage-roadmap/issues/217 https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-coverag... Can't find a blog detailing exactly when it launched, but here's a file from an AWS SDK in 2011 with it: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/2b08c776c16fc1c8f5891e93b715ee90a81c287a/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/cloudformation/model/EstimateTemplateCostRequest.java https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/2b08c776c16fc1c8f58...