Technical startup founder, 2 acquisitions, 1 failed. Working on http://Infracost.io - cloud cost estimates for Terraform in your CLI and pull requests 💰📉
Sorry to hear that :( FWIW you're not alone, I've heard many cloud cost horror stories over the years.
Is it this complicated to create an intelligent tool to help AWS customers catch this situation and avoid money loss?
Cost estimation can be pretty complicated. With github.com/infracost/infracost we're building an open source tool to help engineers get cost estimates before launching resources, initially we're focused on Terraform (so it couldn't have helped in you unfortunately) but we have plans to go beyond that. It's taken a fairly large community over 6 months to code the price mappings for ~200 cloud resources across AWS/Azure/GCP.
What don't you love about the AWS Config solution you implemented? I'm wondering if we should code-up the precautions from your article into infracost...
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Sorry to hear that :( FWIW you're not alone, I've heard many cloud cost horror stories over the years.
Cost estimation can be pretty complicated. With github.com/infracost/infracost we're building an open source tool to help engineers get cost estimates before launching resources, initially we're focused on Terraform (so it couldn't have helped in you unfortunately) but we have plans to go beyond that. It's taken a fairly large community over 6 months to code the price mappings for ~200 cloud resources across AWS/Azure/GCP.
What don't you love about the AWS Config solution you implemented? I'm wondering if we should code-up the precautions from your article into infracost...