I was one of the founders of tfsec (it scanned code for security issues). One of the things I learnt was if we catch issues early, i.e. when the engineer was typing their code, we save a bunch of time.

I was thinking … okay, why not build cloud costs into the code editor. Show the cloud cost impact of the code as the engineers are writing it.

So I spent some weekends and built one right into JetBrains - fully free - keep in mind it is new, might be buggy, so please let me know if you find issues. It is check it out: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/24761-infracost

I recorded a video too, if you just want to see what it does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgfkdmUNzEo

I'd love to get your feedback on this. I want to know if it is helpful, what other cool features we can add to it, and how can we make it better?

Final note - the extension calls our Cloud Pricing API, which holds 4 million prices from AWS, Azure and GCP, so no secrets, credentials etc are touched at all.

If you want to get the same Infracost goodness in your CI/CD, check out https://www.infracost.io/cicd