hey all - what is the best way to deal with autoscaling calculations? there is, of course, a big difference in cost between running 1 t3.xlarge instance and running 10 of them. Specifying a value for the “MaxSize” setting in the

aws:autoscaling:asg

namespace doesn’t seem to help:

{
      namespace = "aws:autoscaling:asg",
      name      = "MaxSize",
      value     = var.autoscaling_max_size,
      resource  = ""
    },

Hello! Could you please explain what you’re trying to accomplish? Or what is the problem? :)

hey Vadim! Let’s say I’m expecting higher traffic, so I would increase the MaxSize for my autoscaling group from 2 to 5. Looks like right now infracost won’t detect this change that could potentially increase my cloud costs - it would simply say there’s no difference. If I want to see how much it could potentially cost me to run 5 instances instead of 2, I would have to increase the MinSize to 5 as well

Can you try setting infracost-usage.yml file with the following?

version: 0.1
resource_usage:
  aws_autoscaling_group.<CHANGE ME>:
    instances: 15 # Number of instances in the autoscaling group.

I’ll give that a try on another project later where autoscaling groups are already provisioned. This was for a new project

Correct