Cost estimation from Terraform with Infracost
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Barbara Gaspar

Barbara Gaspar @barbara_gaspar

About: Principal FinOps Engineer

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Cost estimation from Terraform with Infracost

Publish Date: Apr 23
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Using Infracost we can estimate infrastructure costs prior to deployment from Terraform.
The steps to execute it are as follows:

Install Infracost

brew install infracost

infracost --version # Should show 0.10.40
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If we already have it installed, we can update to the latest version

brew update
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Get API key

To get a free API that uses CLI to retrieve prices from prices in the cloud, it is necessary to make a registration, which directs us to a web page to register our mail.

infracost auth login
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Once you are registered, you will see this message

Infracost

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Create the working directory and file

#Directory creation 
mkdir my-terraform-project
cd my-terraform-project

#main file creation
touch main.tf 
nano main.tf #edit file
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Edit the file with the following code

provider "aws" {
  region                      = "us-east-1"
  skip_credentials_validation = true
  skip_requesting_account_id  = true
  access_key                  = "mock_access_key"
  secret_key                  = "mock_secret_key"
}

resource "aws_instance" "my_web_app" {
  ami           = "ami-005e54dee72cc1d00"

  instance_type = "m3.xlarge" # <<<<<<<<<< Try changing this to m5.xlarge to compare the costs

  tags = {
    Environment = "production"
    Service     = "web-app"
  }

  root_block_device {
    volume_size = 1000 # <<<<<<<<<< Try adding volume_type="gp3" to compare costs
  }
}

resource "aws_lambda_function" "my_hello_world" {
  runtime       = "nodejs12.x"
  handler       = "exports.test"
  image_uri     = "test"
  function_name = "test"
  role          = "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123123123123:instance/i-1231231231"

  memory_size = 512
  tags = {
    Environment = "Prod"
  }
}
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We apply the configuration

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The result of this estimation we have $294 of consumption for the infrastructure we defined in the main.tf file. If we edit some configurations, we can compare the costs of the infrastructure to be deployed. Undoubtedly very useful for estimating costs.

References
Infracost (2025). Get Started, https://www.infracost.io

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