towardsthecloud/cloudburn
Open-source policy engine that blocks bad AWS spending patterns before they ship and remediates what's already burning. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
96/100
- Activity 95
- Release rhythm 96
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0.0
- age_days: 1999
- days_rel: 30
- days_push: 30
- n_releases_24m: 39
Adoption not part of the score
1777 stars · 370 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
CloudBurn is an open-source AWS cost policy engine distributed as a CLI, SDK, and GitHub App. It runs deterministic cost rules against Terraform and CloudFormation templates in CI (scan) and against live AWS accounts (discover) to catch and remediate wasteful spending patterns.
Use cases
- scan terraform templates for aws cost waste before deploy
- find cost savings in my live aws account
- add cost checks to ci pipeline for pull requests
- flag s3 buckets missing lifecycle policies
- detect ec2 instances not using gravon or preferred instance types
- audit rds and ebs for outdated expensive storage types
- embed aws cost rules in custom tooling via sdk
- see cost impact of terraform plans on pull requests
When to choose
- you want deterministic, inspectable cost rules instead of dashboard-first finops tools
- your infrastructure is defined in terraform or cloudformation on aws
- you want cost feedback at code review and ci time before deployment
- you need to audit an already-running aws account for waste
- you prefer an open-source cli you can self-host and script
When to avoid
- you need multi-cloud cost management across azure and gcp in depth (aws is the focus)
- you want usage-based anomaly detection or forecasting rather than deterministic rules
- you need a full finops dashboard with budgeting and reporting for finance teams
- your stack is not on aws
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
cli developer-tools infrastructure-as-code ci-cd configuration-management monitoring analytics cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code developer-tools self-hosted cli cross-platform cloud finops aws cost-optimization terraform cloudformation policy-engine iac-scanning cost-audit sdk github-app devops automation nodejs macos linux docker
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/towardsthecloud/cloudburn · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9705f95242af
- homepage: https://cloudburn.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · d1e779403003
- site_page: https://cloudburn.io/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9636b30187ee
- site_page: https://cloudburn.io/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 09df2e75efe2
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/cloudburn · fetched 2026-08-29 · ea251bc4fe6d
- site_page: https://cloudburn.io/changelog · fetched 2026-08-29 · ef5368fed4a7
- site_page: https://cloudburn.io/tools/aws-lambda-pricing-calculator · fetched 2026-08-29 · 41488b55eacb
- site_page: https://cloudburn.io/tools/amazon-ec2-pricing-calculator · fetched 2026-08-29 · e51d9e334c9a
- site_page: https://cloudburn.io/tools/amazon-s3-pricing-calculator · fetched 2026-08-29 · a8001655bec6
- site_page: https://cloudburn.io/tools/amazon-ebs-pricing-calculator · fetched 2026-08-29 · 98a70075d712
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| towardsthecloud/cloudburn | main | 96 |
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