Product updates
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New features, improvements, and fixes across CloudBurn and CloudBurn Platform.
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398 product contributions in the past year (CloudBurn + CloudBurn Platform)
Latest updates
CloudBurn
Bring AWS cost checks into pull requests and AI workflows
September brings CloudBurn scans into GitHub Actions and AI assistants, adds AWS optimization recommendations, and makes incomplete evidence clearer so teams can act on findings with more confidence.
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Review cost findings in GitHub Actions
Run infrastructure checks in CI, see findings on pull requests, and choose which findings should fail the job.
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Ask your AI assistant to run cost checks
The CloudBurn MCP server and agent plugin let compatible assistants scan infrastructure code, discover AWS cost findings, and inspect available rules.
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Review AWS optimization recommendations together
Opt-in Cost Optimization Hub checks bring rightsizing, idle capacity, Savings Plans, reservations, Graviton migrations, and generation upgrades into CloudBurn findings.
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Catch forecast budget overruns
A new check flags AWS budgets forecast to exceed their limit, giving teams a chance to investigate before actual spend crosses it.
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Keep missing evidence visible
Checks with incomplete usage or configuration evidence report unknown coverage, helping teams distinguish an assessed resource from one that still needs investigation.
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Focus tagging findings on resources you created
Tagging checks exclude AWS defaults and keep uncertain resource ownership visible as unknown coverage, reducing misleading findings.
CloudBurn Platform
Find, review, and share AWS cost opportunities
Review AWS cost opportunities in focused areas, track findings across scans, and share results with your team. Clearer coverage explanations help you understand what each scan could assess.
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Review four areas of AWS cost optimization
Explore Unused Resources, Resource Efficiency, Commitment Savings, and Cost Governance, with findings and recommended actions for each area.
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Share findings outside the dashboard
Download matching findings or a full review as CSV or Markdown for team discussions and follow-up work.
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See patterns across checks and scans
Findings are grouped by check, while overview charts show findings by service and changes across recent scans.
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Understand incomplete scan coverage
See explanations for incomplete results, affected checks, and available next steps before deciding how to act on findings.
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Start reviewing newly connected accounts
Newly connected AWS accounts appear in cost optimization views without requiring a page reload.
CloudBurn
See AWS waste and the checks behind it
August added storage modernization checks and SDK evidence that shows why each selected check triggered, passed, or did not apply, so teams can find aging AWS choices and explain scan results.
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Catch S3 buckets that never tier
Buckets without lifecycle configuration now get an Intelligent-Tiering recommendation, making long-lived storage waste easier to spot.
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Review older RDS storage
CloudBurn now flags RDS instances still using gp2 or magnetic storage so teams can prioritize the most obvious storage-generation upgrades.
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See previous-generation cache nodes
ElastiCache clusters on older node families are now called out before they quietly stay in the estate for another budgeting cycle.
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Explain every live check
SDK consumers can request normalized resource evidence and explicit triggered, passed, or not-applicable outcomes, making discovery results easier to audit and present.
CloudBurn Platform
Run CloudBurn as a team
Teams can now share AWS account work, choose where pull-request cost estimates run, see what unused-resource scans checked, and estimate usage across more AWS services with missing prices marked as incomplete.
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Manage AWS accounts in shared workspaces
Invite teammates, switch between workspaces, and keep each team's AWS accounts and billing together.
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Choose where cost estimates run
Workspace owners can link the CloudBurn GitHub App and select the repositories that should receive pull-request cost estimates.
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See what each scan checked
Unused-resource results now show service coverage, passed checks, and compliant resources alongside the findings that need attention.
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Estimate more usage-driven services
Pull-request estimates now account for declared usage across API Gateway, Lambda, CloudWatch Logs, EFS, Kinesis, and network traffic.
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See when an estimate is incomplete
Pull-request reports now keep unknown prices out of the total and label the estimate incomplete, so missing data does not read as a zero-cost change.
CloudBurn
Set stronger cost guardrails across more AWS accounts
July brought clearer CI policy, broader AWS cost checks, and steadier discovery runs so teams can catch more waste without turning every scan into manual follow-up.
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Choose what should fail CI
Set a high, medium, or low severity threshold while keeping intentional inline exceptions visible to reviewers.
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Bring budgets and tagging into the same review
New checks flag exceeded AWS budgets and, when enabled, untagged resources across the account so allocation gaps show up earlier.
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Keep large discoveries moving
CloudBurn continues with available findings and streams progress, so one unavailable dataset no longer turns a long scan into a dead end.
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Skip a bad IaC file without losing the scan
Malformed or oversized infrastructure files are reported as safe diagnostics while the rest of the static scan continues.
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Run discovery with scoped AWS credentials
SDK users can provide the AWS identity for a discovery run without changing the surrounding process credentials.
CloudBurn Platform
Bring cost decisions into the work sooner
CloudBurn Platform now brings AWS cost context into pull request reviews and keeps calculator estimates aligned as you adjust the choices behind them.
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Review AWS cost estimates before you merge
A guided setup connects your CloudBurn account and GitHub installation so infrastructure cost context reaches the pull request review.
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See calculator changes sooner
Calculator estimates now keep up more closely as you edit inputs, with cleaner handling when you replace a zero value.
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Keep Aurora capacity choices in sync
Changing the minimum or maximum capacity now keeps the allowed average capacity within the range you selected.
CloudBurn
Turn stale AWS resources into a clear cleanup list
April added focused checks for stopped compute, aging snapshots, and expired commitments, while discovery got better at finishing when AWS data is incomplete.
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Find compute that has stopped doing useful work
CloudBurn now calls out stopped EC2 and RDS instances plus idle SageMaker resources so they don't sit unnoticed on the bill.
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Review old snapshots and expired reservations
Old manual RDS snapshots and recently expired EC2 Reserved Instances now appear in the same review queue as other cost findings.
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Keep scanning when AWS data is incomplete
Discovery now retries longer and reports skipped checks separately when AWS can't return every dataset.
CloudBurn
Review AWS waste in code and live accounts
March expanded CloudBurn across more AWS services and brought many of the same cost checks into Terraform and CloudFormation reviews before they're deployed.
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Catch costly patterns before deployment
High-confidence checks now review Terraform and CloudFormation for storage, compute, database, networking, and scaling choices that deserve a second look.
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Scan more of a live AWS account
New discovery checks cover idle resources, missing cost guardrails, stale data, and inefficient settings across services including Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFront, and ElastiCache.
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Set up and inspect configuration more clearly
The dedicated config command can create a starter file, print the active configuration, or show the template without writing it.