InfraCost – How to Estimate Cloud Cost with Terraform

Infracost is a tool that helps estimate cloud costs by integrating with Terraform and providing detailed cost breakdowns for resources. It currently supports AWS, Azure, and GCP and works only with Terraform, but soon will release integration with CloudFormation and Pulumi. Infracost can be installed on macOS using Homebrew and requires an API key to function. The tool provides a VS Code Extension that allows users to see cost estimates while writing code. It also integrates with Spacelift for managing Terraform and achieving true GitOps around it, enabling policy as code, plan policies, and pre-commit integration. Overall, Infracost is a powerful tool that can help organizations better understand their cloud costs and make more informed decisions about resource allocation.