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by akh 4y ago
We need to iterate on the output for usage-based resources, repeating the same "Monthly cost depends on usage" hundreds of times is not great! Maybe summarizing it as "you have 20 Lambda functions, all running on US-east-1, w
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by akh 4y ago
Awesome! it's always fun hearing how users use Infracost in their workflow
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by akh 4y ago
In case you're wondering: https://www.infracost.io/docs/faq/#whats-the-difference-betw...
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by akh 4y ago
When I started looking at cloud pricing in 2009 there were ~10K price points, today there are more than 3M. The cloud vendors focus on moving fast and continually release new services but there is more they could be doing to make it easy fo
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by akh 4y ago
Great question! See https://www.infracost.io/docs/features/usage_based_resources... as the CLI can pull usage data for Lambda/S3/Dynamo from the AWS APIs (e.g. CloudWatch). The other data source we can t
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by akh 4y ago
I wrote a blog about how stars helped us at the very early stages of our open source product: https://www.infracost.io/blog/github-stars-matter-here-is-wh...
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Estimate cloud costs by parsing Terraform HCL code(infracost.io)
7 points by akh 4y ago|1 comments
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Good vs. Bad 1-1 meetings(abar.tech)
2 points by akh 5y ago|0 comments
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New cost policies: catch mistakes and budget-breaking changes in CI(infracost.io)
2 points by akh 5y ago|0 comments
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by akh 5y ago
Thanks!
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by akh 5y ago
We couldn't wait either so we talked with other TFE users who were using Infracost and we learned from them to make an example of how to run it with GitHub Actions: https://github.com/infracost/actions/tree&#x
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by akh 5y ago
Thanks! 1. I suspect there might be the need for migration calculators but for smaller bills, the cost of the actual migration might be more than the cloud bill savings. For larger bills, it'll depend on the discounts and custom prices
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by akh 5y ago
Thanks! Cloud pricing is messy for sure. This blog describes the Cloud Pricing API: https://www.infracost.io/blog/cloud-pricing-api/ it's the 3rd one our team has built in the last 10 years. The Infracost CLI
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by akh 5y ago
Thanks!
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by akh 5y ago
The complexity is crazy for sure. Around 10 years ago I started looking at cloud costs as part of my PhD - back then there were around 10,000 price points that I was scraping manually, today there are more than 3 million prices between AWS,
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GitHub Actions to see cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests(github.com)
1 points by akh 5y ago|0 comments
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I once killed a $125M deal by being “too honest”(twitter.com)
289 points by akh 5y ago|133 comments
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Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Sr Software Engineer: Love Your Cloud Bills(ycombinator.com)
1 points by akh 5y ago
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Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring Principal Software Engineer: Love Your Cloud Bills(ycombinator.com)
1 points by akh 5y ago
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Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Software Engineer: Love Your Cloud Bills(ycombinator.com)
1 points by akh 5y ago
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Why one founder is over the 90-day excercise window(equityacademy.secfi.com)
2 points by akh 5y ago|0 comments
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Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer(ycombinator.com)
1 points by akh 5y ago
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by akh 5y ago
Hi HN, this is the 3rd Cloud Pricing API I've worked on. It's an open source GraphQL-based API that includes all public prices from AWS, Azure and Google; it contains over 3 million prices that are automatically updated via a week
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Show HN: Cloud Pricing API (GraphQL) – 3M Prices from AWS, Azure and GCP(github.com)
5 points by akh 5y ago|1 comments
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by akh 5y ago
Capacity planning challenges can't be ignored and it's interesting that Pinterest share their forecasts with AWS significantly in advance. Makes me wonder if AWS will offer more incentives to older/larger enterprises that are
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Infracost (YC W21) is hiring a software engineer: love your cloud bills(ycombinator.com)
1 points by akh 5y ago
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Self-Hosted Cloud Pricing API(infracost.io)
2 points by akh 5y ago|0 comments
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Bitten by the 90 day exercise window(abar.tech)
2 points by akh 5y ago|0 comments
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by akh 5y ago
Infracost | Founding Engineer | Remote +/-5h UTC | Full-time | https://www.infracost.io I'm Ali, co-founder of Infracost - happy to chat with people about this position, ali@infracost.io $80B will be spent on cloud inf
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Infracost (YC W21) is hiring a fullstack eng to help devs love their cloud bill(ycombinator.com)
1 points by akh 5y ago

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