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Does pulumi support cloud cost optimization? :thinking_face: Apparently, that’s a thing in Terraform Cloud (~but I guess it’s only supported for AWS~). I got this question after my talk at the conference and that’s actually the first time I heard about such feature.

I don’t think it does (at least not out of the box) but if there’s some demand for it, maybe we should add it as well?

<https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cloud-docs/cost-estimation>

I was able to find this project:
<https://cloudcostify.app>

and this:
<https://github.com/clstokes/pulumi-policy-aws-cost>

Let me rephrase the question then: has anybody got some experience with using solutions like that? :slightly_smiling_face: :slightly_smiling_face:

There is no out of the box solution at this time now, the ones you found are my recommendations 

This was one of our primary feature our customers are asking with pulumi. We have s commercial product built using automation api and this gap exists. We have taken upon ourselves to build this feature as of now. &lt;advt&gt; <https://www.qmcloud.io/post/generating-cost-estimates-for-cloud-infrastructure-during-deployment|https://www.qmcloud.io/post/generating-cost-estimates-for-cloud-infrastructure-during-deployment>

<@U0288KYUB7C> I am the owner of the Cloudcostify solution. The solution is gradually being advanced to a more mature state such that it can become available to a bigger audience. The current scope of the solution is to provide cloud cost estimations for frequently used Azure resources such as AKS, SQL server and so on and eventually implement support for AWS.
Cost estimation for AKS has been implemented already and is currently in a testing phase.
You are welcome to sign up to the waitlist so I can send you an email when you can get access to the beta to try the solution. Let me know if you have any feedback. You can also try the cost estimation API that is currently in beta because a solution for running cost estimation in a CI/CD pipeline in Azure Devops and Github is not available yet. Just send me a DM to get access.
<@UCWG26BH7> Thanks for the recommendation.