💡 Feature Request - Price estimate for implementing WARA recommendations

[reiantonio]

Describe the solution you'd like

My customer recently requested that we include a column detailing the cost of implementing a specific WARA recommendation. This addition would assist them in understanding the financial implications and facilitate internal planning before making any commitments.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Utilizing the Azure Pricing Calculator may not offer the detailed granularity that the customer requires.

Additional context

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[FallenHoot]

I appreciate the effort to explore more accurate cost estimations for cloud workloads. However, I have some concerns regarding the reliability of querying the Azure Price REST API for ongoing cost predictions.

While the Azure Pricing Calculator pulls data from this API, it requires authentication to the customer’s account to reflect accurate pricing based on their specific discounts. Without this, the estimates are limited to PAYGO prices, which may not align with the customer's actual costs. As a result, relying on the API alone might not provide enough data for consistent, reliable ongoing cost estimations. Not to mention depending on the workload, we could be talking about several hundred datapoints that could be known or unknown. Resulting in the query's to handle a lot of exceptions and assumptions.

Additionally, while CICD methods such as TheCloudTheory/ACE for BICEP and InfraCost for Terraform give a good high-level estimate of price differences before deployment, they still have limitations. These tools offer rough cost predictions, but they do not provide precise, 1:1 price estimates. Could be a nice middle ground to use those tools.

In my experience, the critical factor when estimating costs is aligning workload requirements with reliability goals.