CloudBurn is built by Towards the Cloud, an AWS Cloud Consultancy specializing in infrastructure as code. We created this tool out of necessity after experiencing a critical gap firsthand: developers deploying infrastructure without understanding the cost impact of their changes.
In modern cloud-native organizations, infrastructure changes come from the bottom up. Developers create and modify resources daily, but there's hardly any feedback loop between writing code and understanding costs. Before you know it, small incremental changes add up to massive cloud bills.
The problem gets worse over time:
- Infrastructure changes accumulate without cost visibility
- Teams discover budget overruns weeks or months later
- Once infrastructure is in production, it becomes significantly harder and riskier to change
- Refactoring production workloads for cost optimization requires downtime and extensive testing
- The window to make cost-effective decisions closes quickly
That's why we built CloudBurn: to shift FinOps left in the development lifecycle. By providing instant cost feedback during pull requests, developers can make informed decisions before infrastructure reaches production.
CloudBurn analyzes your CDK and Terraform changes automatically, posting detailed cost reports directly in GitHub where you review code. It's cost optimization at the exact moment when changes are easiest to make.