Cost Optimization

Prevent cost overruns with automated estimation and policy controls. See costs in every PR and enforce approval workflows for expensive changes.

Cost control built into your workflow

Automated cost estimation, policy enforcement, and visibility

Pre-Deploy Estimation

See cost impact before changes are applied

  • Infracost integration
  • Resource breakdowns
  • Monthly projections

Policy Controls

Enforce budget limits automatically

  • Cost thresholds
  • Approval workflows
  • Tag-based tracking

Cost Visibility

Track spending across all workspaces

  • Per-workspace costs
  • Historical trends
  • Team allocation

GitOps Integration

Cost management in your Git workflow

  • PR cost comments
  • Git-based approvals
  • Cost history in Git

Cost Prevention

Catch expensive mistakes early

  • Resource warnings
  • Anomaly detection
  • Best practices

Automation

No manual intervention needed

  • Auto cost checks
  • Notifications
  • Custom policies

See cost controls in action

Watch how Terrateam enforces cost policies through PR workflows

Add RDS instance and Redis cluster #142
TT
terrateam commented
Infracost Report
💰 Monthly cost will increase by $127.50 (+12%)
+ aws_rds_instance.postgres+$89/mo
+ aws_elasticache_cluster.redis+$38/mo
New total$1,190/mo
⚠️ Additional approval required
Cost increase exceeds $100 threshold. Requires approval from @infrastructure-leads
lead-engineer approved these changes
Cost increase is justified for production scaling needs. Approved.
developer commented
terrateam apply
TT
terrateam commented
✅ All cost policies satisfied
Cost threshold policy: PASSED
Infrastructure leads approval: VERIFIED
Applying changes to production/us-east-1
🎉 Apply complete!
Resources: 2 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed
New monthly cost: $1,190.40 (+$127.50)

Flexible cost policies

Threshold-based approvals

# Require approval for high costs
workflows:
- tag_query: "cost_increase:[100,]"
apply_requirements:
- approved_by_team: "finance"
- tag_query: "cost_increase:[50, 100]"
apply_requirements:
- approved: 2

Environment-based limits

# Strict limits for production
workflows:
- tag_query: "environment:production"
apply_requirements:
- cost_increase_less_than: 200
- tag_query: "environment:development"
apply_requirements:
- cost_increase_less_than: 50

Control costs with confidence

$0

Cost surprises

Pre-deploy

Cost visibility

Automated

Policy enforcement

GitOps

Cost workflow

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