infra-cost-guard

Terraform cost estimation works by scanning your Terraform plan to identify expensive resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It calculates hourly, daily, and monthly running costs and emits pre-apply warnings with exact teardown commands to prevent unexpected cloud bills.

Yes, you can get cost warnings for expensive resources like NAT gateways, firewalls, and managed databases. The Skill detects these costly resource types in Terraform plans and live resource lists, calculating their running costs to prevent unexpected infrastructure charges before deployment.

This cost guard tool works with both Terraform plans and live cloud resource lists. It identifies expensive compute, networking, and managed database resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP, providing running cost estimates and post-apply teardown reminders for long-running resources.

The best way to prevent forgotten long-running cloud resources from incurring charges is to use a cost guard that writes post-apply teardown reminders to project run-logs after successful Terraform applies, ensuring you have the exact commands to stop charges when testing is complete.

You calculate the daily running cost of a test Kubernetes cluster and firewall on Azure by estimating the running costs of the expensive resources in your deployment. The Skill generates daily cost estimates and provides explicit teardown commands to run when testing is finished.