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My name is Ben Schaechter and I’m co-founder and CEO of Vantage. Previously, I worked at AWS and DigitalOcean.

Today we’re launching automated cost reporting via Terraform.

As primer, Vantage is a cloud cost management platform that allows you to create dashboards and reports for members in your organization based upon certain infrastructure primitives. For example, you may want to create a cost report for certain AWS member accounts with specific cost allocation tags. This is usually a pretty manual process for configuring and clicking in our console to create a corresponding report.

We’ve increasingly heard that developers want to automatically manage these dashboards and the creation of cost reports via Terraform. Our Terraform provider now allows this to happen with a few different resources we’ve exposed including filters, cost reports and dashboards. This means you can express your FinOps/cloud cost dashboards as infrastructure as code and run `terraform apply` to automate the creation of cost reporting, alongside deploying your infrastructure.

All of this is just the beginning of what we are calling “FinOps as Code” which is a world where you can apply more automation to cloud billing. Soon we will expand this to other primitives on Vantage to things like setting budgets and alerts.

To check out this first iteration, you can create an API key here: https://console.vantage.sh/signup and review our documentation here: https://docs.vantage.sh/terraform