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5701652400 6 hours ago [-]
I don't know how they can justify 250 USD / month bill. let alone 1000 USD / month.
akh 5 hours ago [-]
We prevent way more than that from being added to the cloud bill by showing engineers cost estimates that enables them to make better decisions pre-deploy - e.g. when an engineer knows the IOPS option on their EC2 instance is costing them a lot, they're more likely to reduce that or not use that in dev envs vs just copy/paste what's on production. There's an ROI report on infracost.io that shows how we measure the cost prevention between the first and last commit on merged PRs.
hx8 4 hours ago [-]
Seems to be targeted at quickly reducing infa cost for small-human teams with high-compute costs. I can see some value, but it's something I'd want to review quarterly instead of per-commit. I might feel different if I was really trying to stretch some runway.
I can see why YC is interested in this issue, as I'm sure lots of startups are trying to stretch that runway.
hkh 3 hours ago [-]
When we started, we thought everyone could use it from startups to medium sized companies. What we learnt is that the most value comes for the enterprises. The reason is they have used Terraform to decentralize the infra provisioning, so now instead of a central platform team making all the IaC changes, you have hundreds or thousands of engineers making changes every month.
Each of them are making a lot of decisions on the infra. and that combines with the crazy pricing models from the cloud providers was saving companies a lot of money.
Then, we saw how much time is saved when you catch it at this point vs after the fact. Basically avoiding a bunch of tech debt
5701652400 6 hours ago [-]
why would anyone need 10,000 runs a month? do people modify their infrastructure 10,000 times a month?
akh 5 hours ago [-]
CI/CD pipelines needs 1 CLI run per commit (like any other code scanning tool), we regularly see enterprises with 100K+ runs/month.
esafak 4 hours ago [-]
Ephemeral environments
zuzululu 7 hours ago [-]
Not really seeing the point I just use openrouter if I'm penny pinching
akh 6 hours ago [-]
OpenRouter is great for keeping your LLM API bill down, Infracost is about the AWS/Azure/GCP bill your IaC creates. When an agent writes IaC that creates a NAT gateway or an RDS instance, that's $50-5000/mo in cloud spend, so the agent knowing that estimate and the best practices as it's generating the code can optimize it pre-deploy.
I can see why YC is interested in this issue, as I'm sure lots of startups are trying to stretch that runway.
Each of them are making a lot of decisions on the infra. and that combines with the crazy pricing models from the cloud providers was saving companies a lot of money.
Then, we saw how much time is saved when you catch it at this point vs after the fact. Basically avoiding a bunch of tech debt