Hello everyone,
I would like to assess the potenti...
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echoing-fireman-45416
07/20/2025, 2:34 PMHello everyone,
I would like to assess the potential maximum cost of my infrastructure on aws per month.
What's the best way to simulate that high-usage configuration?
I have .tf resources, but would like to assess the potential high-end cost. Is there some kind of a way to generate a usage file from the existing terraform resources with their "maximum" usage capacity?
Thanks a lot
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white-airport-8778
07/20/2025, 5:15 PM
Hey @echoing-fireman-45416, you can use this example file but note there’s no theratical max for infra, e.g. you can ask AWS to keep bumping-up your acc limits and you can spend as much as you like 😄 so it depends on what you think is your max usage, which you can configure in that file
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echoing-fireman-45416
07/20/2025, 8:57 PMHi Ali, I see your point, thank you for the example!
echoing-fireman-45416
07/20/2025, 9:06 PMI noticed that when I mistakenly type a resource name, there's no validation error, it just fails silently. Is there a way to force that validation?
like adding --strict for example to the command line:
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infracost breakdown --path . --terraform-var-file ./environments/dev.tfvars --format table --usage-file usage.yml --strictechoing-fireman-45416
07/20/2025, 9:12 PMIt looks like it's not supported just digged down furter, i opened an issue for it: https://github.com/infracost/infracost/issues/3430
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