Facets

What Facets is

Facets helps platform teams govern infrastructure while developers and AI coding agents access production-ready infrastructure. It orchestrates infrastructure across AWS, GCP and Azure using versioned blueprints, with platform teams setting guardrails. Facets continuously reconciles configuration to catch and fix drift, and it brings Terraform, Helm, CI/CD and monitoring together for generating and running environments.

Governance includes policy-as-code, contract validation, security policy enforcement, cost controls and dependency checking. A central registry holds approved reusable modules with version control and security compliance. The listed integrations include Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTofu, Helm, Jenkins, Grafana, GitHub Actions, Vault, OPA and Falco; users can extend integrations with any Terraform provider. Facets is available as web software and in self-hosted form. The SaaS plan uses a Facets-hosted control plane, while Enterprise runs in the customer's VPC. Pay-as-you-go costs $799/month and includes 20 Resource Instances, with additional instances at $10/RI. Custom Contract has fixed annual pricing negotiated to the customer's needs and includes unlimited instances. Underlying cloud infrastructure charges are billed separately by the cloud provider.

Who it suits

Facets suits platform teams that need to standardize and govern infrastructure while giving developers self-service provisioning. It is also relevant to teams coordinating environments across AWS, GCP and Azure or providing infrastructure access to AI coding agents.

Limits

Pay-as-you-go includes 20 Resource Instances, then charges $10/RI for additional instances; volume discounts are available at 250+ and 500+ RIs. Underlying cloud infrastructure is billed separately by the cloud provider. Custom Contract includes unlimited Resource Instances.

Getting started

1. Visit the Facets website.
2. Start the 14-day trial or choose a plan.
3. Use the web service or select self-hosted deployment.
4. Connect the desired cloud and tools from the listed integrations.
5. Set guardrails and use versioned blueprints to provision environments.

Verdict

Choose Facets if your platform team wants governed self-service infrastructure across multiple clouds, with drift management and reusable integrations. Look elsewhere if you need cloud infrastructure costs bundled into the platform price or a free plan.