Pipeline, code and runtime cost review

Review infrastructure-as-code, CI pipelines, Dockerfiles and long-running jobs for cost before and after they run, across AWS, Azure and GCP.

Updated 18 October 2026

Online version, always current: https://cloudvision360.com/docs/cloudvision360/shift-left-cost-review/

Much cloud waste is written into infrastructure-as-code, pipelines and job definitions long before it shows up on a bill. This review shifts cost analysis left, to the code and the runtime, across all three major clouds.

Shift-left review of code

Point CloudVision360 at a repository or connect it to your pipelines and it reviews:

  • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and equivalents) — oversized instances, missing autoscaling, always-on resources that could be scheduled, expensive storage tiers and un-lifecycled data.
  • CI/CD pipelines — jobs that run longer or more often than needed, missing caching, and work that repeats on every commit.
  • Dockerfiles — bloated images and build patterns that inflate build time and storage.

Each finding explains the cost impact and the change that fixes it, so it can be acted on in a pull request before it ever runs.

Runtime cost

For work that is already running, CloudVision360 looks at duration-driven cost — CI minutes, serverless execution time and batch jobs that run for hours — and flags the jobs and functions whose runtime is the real cost driver, with recommendations to shorten or reshape them.

CloudVision360 Run cost page
Runtime cost: the CI pipelines, functions and batch jobs whose duration is the real cost driver, read from each platform's run history.

Across clouds

Pipelines, code and runtime review work across AWS, Azure and GCP, through the same cloud connections you already use, with recommendations and (where safe) governed remediation tailored to each provider.

For expensive database and application queries, see query and application cost.