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		mustava on June 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Infracost (YC W21): Cloud Costs for Terra... Seriously? Does that mean any other provisioning method isn't able to estimate a cost without licensing this? E.g cloudformation?

myroon5 on June 30, 2022 [–]

Although there's not much coverage, CloudFormation had prior art for a decade before this patent:

https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cloudformation-coverag...

Can't find a blog detailing exactly when it launched, but here's a file from an AWS SDK in 2011 with it:

https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/blob/2b08c776c16fc1c8f58...

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