What it does
Infracost aims to prevent and remediate cloud waste by building FinOps policies into the workflows engineers already use. It surfaces cost estimates and best-practice recommendations in the IDE and in CI/CD, with recommendations based on Well Architected Frameworks. The site lists support for AWS, Azure and GCP, and for Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Azure ARM and Kubernetes. Named IDE integrations are Claude, VS Code, Copilot, Cursor and JetBrains, and named CI/CD integrations are GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps. For platform managers, it offers out-of-the-box FinOps policies in pipelines, cost guardrails to keep projects under budget, and campaigns and automation to speed up remediation. The site also says AI is used to identify and quickly remediate new and existing cloud waste. Engineers get cost visibility across the major AWS, Azure and GCP services.
Capabilities
- Cost estimates and best practices inside the IDE and CI/CD
- Support for Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Azure ARM and Kubernetes
- Coverage of AWS, Azure and GCP services
- Out-of-the-box FinOps policies and cost guardrails
- Remediation campaigns and automation for existing cloud waste
When to use it
- Checking the cost impact of infrastructure changes before they ship
- Building FinOps policies into a CI/CD pipeline
- Finding and fixing wasted cloud resources across teams
- Giving engineers cost visibility directly in their editor
