Cost Optimization & FinOps
Part 22
palaniappan p 6 min
AWS CDK Cost Estimation: Shift FinOps Left Into Pull Requests
Most FinOps reviews happen weeks after infrastructure ships, when the bill arrives. CDK cost estimation flips that — synthesize the stack, walk the resource graph, hit the AWS Pricing API per resource, and post a monthly-cost diff on every pull request. The cost feedback loop drops from weeks to minutes; the failure modes (request volume, token usage, data transfer) are documented up front.