Hacker News Reader

Comment by hkh | Hacker News Reader

Thanks! There are two group of people: the integrators (DevOps/SRE/platform engs) who are pulling Infracost into the company workflows, and the engineers who are seeing the actual output of Infracost (the pull request cost comment). We'd love to hear from the engineers so we can also improve cost estimate output, and see how we can help the communication between the integrators and engineers (also finance later on).

View on HN

So you've been speaking to the first group and need a way to speak to the second group, got it, thanks.

A couple of questions:

1. It seems your product is proactive with respect to cloud costs while Vantage, CloudForecast etc are more on the reactive side of the spectrum?

2. I imagine that relative to Infracost, a cloud asset management tool like CloudQuery https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery would also fit in the reactive bucket?

1. Exactly! We built one of the early cloud cost management products before EC2 had cost explorer (it was called RightScale Cloud Analytics) and spent years working on the reactive approach. We're now bringing costs into the dev workflow, in the same way that security tools like Snyk have switched the focus to proactive.

2. Yep, those tools query the cloud APIs for existing resources. Meaning they have to have been launched (and already costing money) to be discovered.

Appreciate the shout out and your assessment is pretty spot on w/ #1 (I am one of the co-founders of CloudForecast).

We're actually huge fans of Infracost and what they've done so far. They've built an amazing tool for eng teams, who should always be the lead when it comes to managing cloud cost. We actually have a few customers using them along side us as well.

Congrats on launch, Ali, Hassan and Alistair!

Thanks!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com