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Re:Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Cloud Costs for Terraform in... by leetrout on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:33PM (#31922454)
Fun fact... HashiCorp actually got a patent around (part of) this https://patents.google.com/patent/US11347559B2/
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Re:Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Cloud Costs for Terraform in... by mustava on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:17AM (#31928923)
Seriously? Does that mean any other provisioning method isn't able to estimate a cost without licensing this? E.g cloudformation?
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Re:Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Cloud Costs for Terraform in... by myroon5 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:31AM (#31929659)
Although there's not much coverage, CloudFormation had prior art for a decade before this patent:

https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-coverag...

Can't find a blog detailing exactly when it launched, but here's a file from an AWS SDK in 2011 with it:

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/2b08c776c16fc1c8f58...

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Re:Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Cloud Costs for Terraform in... by debarshri on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:36PM (#31926018)
Terraform cloud does have a cost estimation feature [1]. You might have to upgrade your plan to access it.

[1] https://www.terraform.io/cloud-docs/cost-estimation

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Re:Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Cloud Costs for Terraform in... by akh on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:42PM (#31926057)
In case you're wondering: https://www.infracost.io/docs/faq/#whats-the-difference-betw...
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