I learned the expensive wya that Aurora Serverless v2 does not, in fact, scale down to 0 when I created three instances for a few days when I was testing out configuration changes. It ended up costing us $300.
Life hack for me is to have a fan on and pointed in the direction of my head. The white noise helps and they also don't seem to fly much in the wake of the fan.
Awesome, yeah we’ve seen people using this method and the main complaint we’ve heard is this is annoying for developers since it blocks their deployments when they run `terraform apply`, so they need to create new pull requests and wait for another code review. Combining both can definitely help with this.
Not sure if with shift-left you mean specifically shifting left infracost and FinOps or general Infrastructure-as-Code shift left.
In case it's the latter, I can recommend Spacelift[0] - a specialized CI/CD tool for IaC and supports all the tools you've mentioned. It basically helps you build policies and orchestrate your infra (don't want to go into too much detail in this comment) to scale it to bigger teams and setups. Policies to enforce tagging would indeed be a good example.
It integrates with infracost too, but obviously just for the tools infracost works with, no CloudFormation.
Disclaimer: Work at Spacelift so obviously take the recommendation with a grain of salt, but I do legitimately think it's a great tool.
