InfraCost consulting and hands-on support
MeteorOps provides infracost consulting services to help you analyze and save cloud costs
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- 4.9/5 on Clutch
- Top 0.7% of DevOps engineers
- Billed by the hour, no lock-in
- Consulting
- Hands-on work
- Architecture
Trusted by teams shipping production infrastructure
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The hard part
Finding great InfraCost help is its own project
Hiring a strong InfraCost engineer, for the hours you actually need, is slow, risky, and expensive. Here is what teams keep running into.
Months wasted hunting for a specialist who actually knows InfraCost.
The wrong hire after weeks of interviews and onboarding.
Full-time cost when the workload is genuinely part-time.
Tech debt compounds while InfraCost sits half-finished between sprints.
The roadmap stalls every time InfraCost work lands on the wrong desk.
From first message to shipped InfraCost work
Starting is light and reversible. You see the plan and meet your engineer before a single hour is billed. Here is the whole path.
- 1
Tell us what you need
A short call to understand your current InfraCost setup, the constraints, and the result you are after.
- 2
We shape the plan
You get a written InfraCost work plan: the approach, the trade-offs, and the first steps, adjusted around your input.
- 3
Meet your engineer
We match you with the senior engineer on our team best suited to your InfraCost work. No hour is billed before this.
- 4
We do the work
Your engineer joins the team, ships the hands-on InfraCost work, and keeps consulting you at every step.
Runs throughout, start to finish
- Shared Slack channelWhere we update and discuss the work, day to day.
- Weekly syncsA standing cadence to review progress, blockers, and the next steps, with a written summary.
- Pay as you goUse as many hours as you need. No retainer, no lock-in.
- Free architect inputAn architect from our team joins the discussions to enrich the plan, at no charge.
A conversation first. You decide whether to go further.
Embedded in your team, not an agency over the wall
Your InfraCost engineer joins your team and your tools and works alongside you, with the rest of ours on call behind them.
- Your engineer
Everything in our InfraCost service
Consulting and hands-on work from the same senior engineer, billed by the hour.
A senior InfraCost expert advising you
We hire 7 engineers out of every 1,000 we vet, so you get the top 0.7% of InfraCost experts.
A custom InfraCost plan that fits your company
A flexible process turns your goals into a custom InfraCost work plan built around your requirements.
You pay only for the hours worked
Use as many hours as you like, zero, a hundred, or a thousand. It is completely flexible.
The same expert does the hands-on InfraCost work
Our InfraCost service goes past advice: the person consulting you joins your team and does the hands-on work.
Perspective from many InfraCost setups
Our experts have worked with many companies and seen plenty of InfraCost setups, so they bring real perspective on yours.
An architect's input on the InfraCost decisions
On top of your InfraCost expert, an architect from our team joins the discussions to enrich the plan.
Teams that stopped firefighting
The same senior engineers, on real production work. A recent study, and what clients say once the dust settles.
Import multiple high-scale Kubernetes Clusters into Pulumi
How we organized infrastructure management of a high-scale system in the cloud by utilizing Pulumi and standardizing environment creation
- Pulumi
- Kubernetes
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Thanks to MeteorOps, infrastructure changes have been completed without any errors. They provide excellent ideas, manage tasks efficiently, and deliver on time. They communicate through virtual meetings, email, and a messaging app. Overall, their experience in Kubernetes and AWS is impressive.
Good consultants execute on task and deliver as planned. Better consultants overdeliver on their tasks. Great consultants become full technology partners and provide expertise beyond their scope. I am happy to call MeteorOps my technology partners as they overdelivered, provide high-level expertise and I recommend their services as a very happy customer.
Tell us about your InfraCost project
A couple of lines is enough. We come back with a quick read on the work, a rough shape of the plan, and the senior engineer who fits.
- A senior engineer reads it, not a sales rep
- We reply within a few hours
- Billed by the hour if you go ahead, no lock-in
A bit about InfraCost
Things you need to know about InfraCost before choosing a consulting partner.
What is InfraCost?
Infracost is a cloud cost estimation tool that integrates with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks. It provides detailed cost breakdowns and forecasts for cloud resources before they are deployed, enabling more informed budgeting decisions and cost optimization in cloud environments. Infracost supports various IaC tools, enhancing cloud cost visibility and control.
Why use InfraCost?
- It predicts cloud costs before deployment for budget management
- It works with Terraform for automated cost estimates in development
- Supports multiple cloud providers for cost comparison
- Offers detailed cost breakdowns to identify expensive components
- Highlights savings and suggests cheaper alternatives for optimization
- Integrates with CI/CD pipelines for continuous cost assessment
- Improves team decision-making with accessible cost data
- Adds cost impact analysis to pull requests for easier reviews
- Promotes sustainability by encouraging efficient cloud use
- Open-source, allowing community contributions and updates
Why get our help with InfraCost?
Our experience with InfraCost helped us make cloud cost estimation a normal, repeatable part of Infrastructure as Code delivery, so teams could see spend impact before changes shipped and make better design trade-offs during reviews. We implemented InfraCost in multi-account, multi-environment setups (dev/stage/prod) and used it to improve forecasting, attribution, and lightweight cost governance without slowing down delivery.
Some of the things we did include:
- Integrated InfraCost into CI/CD pipelines to post cost diffs on pull/merge requests, keeping cost review close to the code change that introduced it.
- Standardized InfraCost runs alongside Terraform plans across modules and workspaces to produce consistent, comparable estimates.
- Built reusable pipeline templates and shared components so multiple repositories could adopt InfraCost with minimal duplication and drift.
- Configured policy guardrails (warn/block) and approval routing for high-impact cost changes, aligned with platform ownership and FinOps practices.
- Improved cost attribution by tightening tagging/label conventions and validating that InfraCost breakdowns mapped cleanly to teams, products, and cost centers.
- Created baseline cost reports for common platform blueprints (networking, databases, Kubernetes clusters) to support architecture decisions and budgeting.
- Validated cost impact for Kubernetes-related changes (cluster upgrades, node pool resizing, multi-environment rollouts) and aligned estimates with shared services and networking.
- Optimized expensive infrastructure choices before deployment (e.g., NAT gateways, load balancers, database tiers, storage classes) by proposing alternatives and validating deltas.
- Integrated InfraCost outputs into ChatOps and dashboards so cost changes were easy to interpret without leaving developer workflows.
- Hardened CI execution by securing credentials, isolating runners, and applying least-privilege access patterns for InfraCost runs and cloud provider access.
This delivery experience helped us accumulate significant knowledge across InfraCost use-cases—from PR-based cost visibility and forecasting to guardrails and attribution—and enables us to implement high-quality InfraCost setups that fit your IaC standards and delivery process. For deeper tool context, see Infracost.
How can we help you with InfraCost?
Some of the things we can help you do with InfraCost include:
- Run an InfraCost assessment and deliver a cost-risk report highlighting high-impact resources, missing tags/labels, and quick-win savings opportunities.
- Define an adoption roadmap that places cost checks in the SDLC (PRs, CI, release gates) with clear ownership and escalation paths.
- Implement InfraCost in Terraform workflows to generate automated cost diffs on every pull request and planned infrastructure change.
- Integrate cost visibility into CI/CD with guardrails (budgets, thresholds, approvals) so changes don’t exceed agreed spend limits.
- Standardize cost allocation using tagging/labeling conventions and enforce them through IaC modules and pipeline validation.
- Improve estimate accuracy by tuning configuration, pricing sources, currency/region settings, and handling multi-account and multi-region edge cases.
- Optimize architectures by comparing alternatives (instance families, storage tiers, managed services) and validating cost/performance trade-offs before deployment.
- Enable engineering teams with hands-on training, documentation, and reusable templates so estimates become part of everyday delivery decisions.
- Operationalize ongoing FinOps practices with dashboards, recurring reviews, and continuous improvement loops tied to engineering delivery.
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