What is the difference between InfraGhost and StackGen?

StackGen helps you generate and manage Infrastructure as Code templates. InfraGhost monitors your live, running infrastructure and automatically remediates when actual state diverges from desired state — drift detection and autonomous remediation, not IaC generation.

Do I need both InfraGhost and StackGen?

Potentially. StackGen helps at the authoring stage (writing IaC). InfraGhost helps at the runtime stage (making sure what's deployed stays consistent with what the IaC says). They operate at different phases and can be complementary.

Can InfraGhost replace StackGen?

Not for IaC generation. InfraGhost does not generate Terraform or CloudFormation templates. It monitors running infrastructure and detects/remediates drift. If you need IaC generation, StackGen is purpose-built for that.

// comparison

InfraGhost vs StackGen:
drift detection vs IaC generation.

StackGen generates infrastructure-as-code templates. InfraGhost monitors what that code actually deployed — and fixes it when reality diverges from intent. These tools solve different problems. If your infrastructure is drifting after it's deployed, template generation won't fix it. Continuous monitoring will.

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// side by side

InfraGhost vs StackGen: full breakdown.

	InfraGhost	StackGen
Primary capability	Live drift detection & remediation	IaC template generation
When it works	Continuously, post-deploy	At authoring/provisioning time
Pricing	$49/mo flat	Not publicly listed
Setup time	~5 minutes, IAM read-only	Not published
Auto-remediation	✓ Autonomous, within policy bounds	Not a feature
Monitors live infra	✓ Continuous scans	No — generates templates only
Multi-cloud coverage	✓ AWS + GCP, EC2/RDS/IAM/K8s	Varies by template support
Security posture	✓ Read-only IAM. → trust page	Not published

InfraGhost

Primary useDrift detection

Pricing$49/mo flat

Setup~5 min

Auto-remediation✓ Autonomous

Live monitoring✓ Continuous

StackGen

Primary useIaC generation

PricingNot published

SetupNot published

Auto-remediationNot a feature

Live monitoringNo

// the problem space

IaC generation is a starting point, not a safety net.

StackGen helps you write Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi faster. That's valuable at provisioning time. But infrastructure doesn't stay the way you provisioned it. IAM policies get manually updated. Security groups get widened for a "quick test" that becomes permanent. Auto-scaling rules get tweaked. Resources get created outside of IaC. A template generator can't catch any of this — it only knows what you told it to generate, not what's running in production right now.

24/7 Continuous drift monitoring. Not just at deploy time.

// what drift actually is

Drift happens between deployments, not during them.

The gap between "what IaC says should exist" and "what actually exists" grows over time. Hotfixes applied directly to production. Manual console changes made during incidents. Automated processes that modify infrastructure outside of Terraform. Shadow resources that nobody remembers creating. By the time you run your next Terraform plan, the drift is already months old. InfraGhost catches it continuously — not the next time you deploy.

// the complete picture

Generation and detection: two phases, two tools.

StackGen and InfraGhost aren't direct competitors — they operate at different points in the infrastructure lifecycle. StackGen helps at the authoring phase. InfraGhost helps at the runtime phase. If you're evaluating both, you might use StackGen to generate Terraform faster and InfraGhost to make sure production stays aligned with that Terraform after it's deployed. But if you're choosing one and the question is "how do I stop my cloud infrastructure from drifting?" — that's InfraGhost.

// when to choose InfraGhost

Choose InfraGhost when your problem is drift, not generation.

Infrastructure drifts between deployments and you find out when things break
Manual console changes are common and hard to track across your team
Security groups, IAM policies, or configurations change outside of IaC
You need autonomous remediation, not just detection and alerting
Cost governance matters — orphaned resources and over-provisioning accumulate
You want continuous monitoring, not point-in-time plan/apply checks

InfraGhost vs StackGen:drift detection vs IaC generation.