Infracost is a tool designed to Shift FinOps Left, integrating seamlessly into engineering and product workflows to provide insights into the cost impact of cloud infrastructure changes before resources are launched. By automating FinOps practices, Infracost ensures that budgets are checked before spending, triggering approval workflows if cost increases exceed predefined limits.
The tool enforces FinOps policies during code review, offering better infrastructure options to engineers and ensuring 100% tag coverage to conform with tagging policies. Infracost integrates directly into GitHub, GitLab, and Jira, offering a daily export of information for use in existing FinOps and Business Intelligence dashboards.