Cost-Related Misconfigurations Findings

Open allianeamt opened this issue 7 months ago • 1 comments

Hi there! 👋

I’m a master’s student researching cost considerations in cloud infrastructure. As part of this project, we ran a static analysis tool (linter) on your repository to identify cost-related misconfigurations.

We found 16 potential issues across 13 files, some of which might significantly affect the cloud costs of your project.

Are you interested in the linter results? Reply here. We’ll send the report along with a short follow-up survey (~5 min) to evaluate our tool and better understand cost considerations in open-source projects for our research. All data will be treated confidentially.

If you’re curious about our work, we are investigating how developers approach cost in cloud infrastructure, specifically Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. Our goal is to identify patterns and anti-patterns to help developers make more cost-aware infrastructure decisions. You can check out what we’ve discovered so far here: https://search-rug.github.io/iac-cost-patterns/. If you have any questions or would like to discuss our research, don’t hesitate to reach out!

Thank you for your time and support! 🤗

Allia Neamt, MSc Student (Computing Science)
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen

Jul 08 '25 10:07 allianeamt

Hi again! 👋 Just following up on this — we’d love to share the cost-related findings from our linter and get your quick feedback (just a ~5 min survey). It would really help our research on costs in cloud infrastructure, and the results could significantly benefit your project.

Let me know if you're interested. Thanks so much! 🙏 – Allia

Jul 31 '25 11:07 allianeamt