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Comment #42920610
Infracost | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (GMT+2 to GMT-6) | Full-time | €80K - €140K EUR Infracost helps engineering teams understand cloud costs before they deploy infrastruc…
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Comment #37063246
Great point about the multiple API calls. One of the big problems we’ve heard about using SCPs is that they are too late. If a deployment fails because of them the developer needs …
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Comment #37063031
Awesome, yeah we’ve seen people using this method and the main complaint we’ve heard is this is annoying for developers since it blocks their deployments when they run `terraform a…
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Comment #26493927
(co-founder here) Thanks! We started on this last August, so still pretty early and got a lot more we want to add.
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Comment #26075383
Thanks, feel free to reach out if we can help with anything.
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Comment #26071554
Thanks got it, will contact you when it's live.
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Comment #26071080
Sure, it's https://twitter.com/leckie . Thanks!
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Comment #26069219
Great, thanks for the details - supporting these negotiated rates and any custom price books is definitely on our roadmap.
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Comment #26068652
Thanks, running on self managed clusters or bare metal can save costs in some circumstances, but comes with trade-offs and overheads as well. In our previous company we were managi…
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Comment #26067760
Do you know if they have public pricing available? Or are you using negotiated rates? If so, we're looking to add support for custom price books in the future.
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Comment #26067655
Agree, state files can contain sensitive information. We parse the Terraform client side and only send the details to the API that are needed to determine the price, i.e. the insta…
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Comment #26067488
Yeah! When we started in the cloud cost space about 9 years ago I remember AWS had about 10,000 unique price points... now it's over 2 million! The level of services/options availa…
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Comment #26067343
Azure support is in the works - it's also our most upvoted issue ( https://github.com/infracost/infracost/issues/64 ). Are you using VMC on Azure as well?
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Comment #26066861
Thanks! The site design was custom done by a friend of ours.
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Comment #26066692
We are free and open source and support more AWS and Google services ( https://www.infracost.io/docs/supported_resources ). We also fit in with existing toolsets - we think it’s im…
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Comment #26066567
You're right. It has to be a balance between the cost of the infrastructure and the developer's time. One feature we have for this is to only show comments in PRs if the cost incre…
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Comment #26066239
Haha thanks, great point - will fix!
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Comment #26066112
Thanks, looking forward to your feedback!
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Comment #26065756
Thanks! Yeah we think that making the costs visible to engineers will help remove the pain here. We're seeing some big companies like Netflix, Slack and Segment implement dev-focus…
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Comment #26065358
Thanks! Yeah we've been in the same situation. Looking forward to your feedback.
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Comment #26065348
We cover 70+ resources across AWS and GCP (the tool you mentioned only covers 12 AWS resources) and we support a number of integrations including GitHub Actions and Atlantis ( http…