Million Dollar Lines of Code Checklist

Unlock the Checklist: Preventing “Million-Dollar Lines of Code” in IaC and discover how to bake cost-control into every commit:

• End-to-End Cost Discipline
  Follow a proven workflow—planning, coding, reviewing, and monitoring—that keeps spend in check from day one.

• 12+ Battle-Tested Best Practices
  Right-size by default, automate cleanup of test stacks, leverage Spot instances, enforce lifecycle policies, and more.

• Instant Guardrails
  Plug-and-play tools (tfsec, Checkov, OPA Gatekeeper, Terraform Sentinel, AWS Config, Azure Policy) that block expensive mis-configs before they reach prod.

• Cost-Focused Code Reviews
  A ready-made “Cost Impact” PR checklist to make every engineer think like a FinOps pro.

• Continuous Validation Loop
  Compare estimates vs. actuals, feed cloud-provider savings recommendations back into IaC, and audit top spenders on a schedule.