New FinOps Policies & tfsec Creators Join Infracost

FinOps has evolved to integrate more closely with the development workflow by shifting left, as highlighted at the recent FinOpsX conference. This approach, which Infracost has supported since 2021, aims to reduce engineering time and prevent cost overruns by addressing cloud costs and best practices earlier in the development process. Infracost has introduced an improved pull request comment format to make FinOps and tagging issues more accessible to engineers, and has updated its GitHub and GitLab apps accordingly. The company has also added 12 new FinOps policies based on the Well-Architected Frameworks to automate best practices, such as using AWS Graviton instances and low CO2 cloud regions, and has made policies more flexible by allowing them to only trigger when new resources are added. Additionally, Owen and Liam, creators of the tfsec open-source project, have joined Infracost, bringing expertise from the security domain.