Manage cloud spend with Terraform: cost estimation, tagging, and policy-as-code.
Infrastructure as code should include cost awareness. Use Terraform to enforce tags, estimate cost, and align with budgets.
# Infracost or Terraform Cloud cost estimation in pipeline
plan:
- terraform plan -out=tfplan
- infracost breakdown --path=tfplan
- # fail or warn if delta exceeds threshold
Catch expensive changes before apply.
tags = {
Team = var.team
Project = var.project
Env = var.environment
ManagedBy = "terraform"
}
Best practice: treat cost as part of the PR review and make tag compliance automatic.
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