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but if I follow the recommended:

infracost breakdown --path . --terraform-var-file alpha-prod.tfvars

It responds with an output of ~ $48k USD It seems to be counting RDS instances 26 times - any ideas?

Hello! Are you able to run Infracost against your TF code? To compare the results. To answer your question we’d need a way to reproduce it - sharing the piece of the code (sanitizied of course) and tfvars would help a lot

Thanks for coming back to me, unfortunately I don't think my customer will allow that. Their terraform is a bit of a spaghetti sandwich, with multiple layers of modules.

If you're using count/foreach blocks and the count comes from a data input, we might not mock it correctly (as we can't read the data), thus it gets parsed incorrectly and we probably get the length of the string as a value (in your case it's a 25 character string). It's just a guess though

Ah that’s a possibility. There’s definitely some data sources being thrown around in the mix.