What this section prints is decided by the calendar, not by anything the vendor did. 4 records here carry a date after 2026-11-14. The vendor has announced them and they have not taken effect, so they are not part of the history below. On its own date a record here joins the Pricing Change Timeline, below.
Google Cloud Deployment Manager is turned down after June 30, 2027. Support ended April 1, 2026. Since June 30, 2026, new users cannot enable the Deployment Manager API or create a first deployment. Existing deployments can use Deployment Manager until June 30, 2027. After that date, Deployment Manager can no longer be used. Resources it created continue to run and are managed with standard Google Cloud tools. Google recommends Infrastructure Manager. Source ↗
Azure Fluid Relay retires on June 2, 2027. It can be used until June 1, 2027. The Fluid Framework remains open source. Replace it with a self-hosted Fluid service you run yourself. Source ↗
Azure Deployment Environments retires on February 22, 2027. Creating and deploying environments and other write operations are expected to be blocked on that date. Inventory, read, log and delete stay available for a limited cleanup period. Microsoft Dev Box retires later, in September 2028. Source ↗
The standalone AWS Infrastructure Composer console shuts down on December 7, 2026. New customers have not been able to sign up since October 29, 2026. Existing customers can use the console until December 7, 2026. The visual editor remains in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. CloudFormation templates and stacks continue to work normally. Source ↗
Pricing Change Timeline
Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.
AWS Proton reaches end of support on 2026-10-07, when its console and resources stop being accessible. AWS: "Your deployed CloudFormation stacks and the resources they manage will remain intact and continue to function." New customers could not sign up after 2025-10-07. Source ↗
reducedPulumidiscovered 2026-09-26 · effective date unknownmedium
Pulumi dropped Pulumi Neo's 5M free tokens a month from its free plan, which it renamed from Individual to Free, between the Internet Archive's capture of its pricing page on 2026-09-13 and our reading of 2026-09-26. The free plan's other terms (1 user, unlimited projects and stacks, up to 500 workflow minutes) are unchanged; Neo now costs $3 per 1M tokens on paid plans only. Source ↗
increasedScalreffective between 2026-08-28 and 2026-09-21low
The free plan now includes 5 concurrent runs by default, and the quota can be increased for free on request. Previously 2 concurrent runs. Source ↗
Terragrunt Scale's pricing page added a Free Forever plan at $0, with up to 25 infrastructure units, between the Internet Archive's copies of 2026-03-18 and 2026-05-21. The copy of 2026-03-18 lists only Team, at "$500/mo*", and Enterprise. Gruntwork had opened a waitlist for the free tier on 2025-12-15. Source ↗
HashiCorp's legacy free plan for HCP Terraform reached end of life on March 31, 2026. Legacy free plan users were auto-migrated to the enhanced free tier with different limits: 500 managed resources (previously unlimited for small teams), unlimited users, 1 concurrent run, SSO, and policy as code (Sentinel + OPA) Source ↗
Gruntwork announced a free tier for Terragrunt Scale and opened a waitlist for it, saying it would process applications in the new year. It positioned the tier as an alternative to the HCP Terraform free tier ahead of HashiCorp's March 31, 2026 end of life for that tier, "with matching or higher limits compared to HCP Terraform". Includes GitOps, drift detection, and module update automation Source ↗
HashiCorp switched Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, and other products from MPL 2.0 to BSL 1.1 license. Triggered OpenTofu fork under Linux Foundation. IBM acquired HashiCorp for $6.4B in 2024 Source ↗
We hold 3 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.
Stable Picks
All 4 of the 14 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.