aws-agent-skills

AWS API Gateway for REST and HTTP API management. Use when creating APIs, configuring integrations, setting up authorization, managing stages, implementing rate limiting, or troubleshooting API issues.

AWS Bedrock foundation models for generative AI. Use when invoking foundation models, building AI applications, creating embeddings, configuring model access, or implementing RAG patterns.

AWS CloudFormation infrastructure as code for stack management. Use when writing templates, deploying stacks, managing drift, troubleshooting deployments, or organizing infrastructure with nested stacks.

AWS CloudWatch monitoring for logs, metrics, alarms, and dashboards. Use when setting up monitoring, creating alarms, querying logs with Insights, configuring metric filters, building dashboards, or troubleshooting application issues.

AWS Cognito user authentication and authorization service. Use when setting up user pools, configuring identity pools, implementing OAuth flows, managing user attributes, or integrating with social identity providers.

AWS DynamoDB NoSQL database for scalable data storage. Use when designing table schemas, writing queries, configuring indexes, managing capacity, implementing single-table design, or troubleshooting performance issues.

AWS EC2 virtual machine management — instances, security groups, key pairs, AMIs, EBS volumes, Auto Scaling Groups, Spot Instances, Session Manager, placement groups, and instance lifecycle automation. Trigger on ANY of these, even when EC2 isn't named explicitly: - Launching or provisioning: "spin up a server", "create a VM", "new instance", "run-instances", mention of instance types (t3, m5, c5, r6, g5, p4d, t4g, c7g, etc.) - SSH / connectivity problems: "connection refused", "connection timed out", "permission denied publickey", "can't connect to my instance", "SSH not working" - Instance management: resize, stop, start, terminate, reboot, change instance type - Cost optimization: stop dev instances overnight, save money on EC2, spot vs on-demand, reserved instances - Auto Scaling: ASG, launch template, mixed instances policy, scale to zero, scheduled scaling - Spot Instances: spot fleet, spot interruption, capacity-optimized, price-capacity-optimized - AMIs and backups: create image, custom AMI, EBS snapshot, DLM lifecycle policy, copy AMI - Monitoring: EC2 CPU utilization, CloudWatch metrics for instance, instance status checks, console output - Access methods: Session Manager, EC2 Instance Connect, bastion host, port forwarding - Security: IMDSv2, instance metadata, IAM role on instance, security group rules - User data and bootstrap scripts, cloud-init

AWS ECS container orchestration for running Docker containers. Use when deploying containerized applications, configuring task definitions, setting up services, managing clusters, or troubleshooting container issues.

AWS EKS Kubernetes management for clusters, node groups, and workloads. Use when creating clusters, configuring IRSA, managing node groups, deploying applications, or integrating with AWS services.

AWS EventBridge serverless event bus for event-driven architectures. Use when creating rules, configuring event patterns, setting up scheduled events, integrating with SaaS, or building cross-account event routing.

AWS Identity and Access Management for users, roles, policies, and permissions. Use when creating IAM policies, configuring cross-account access, setting up service roles, troubleshooting permission errors, or managing access control.

AWS Lambda serverless functions for event-driven compute. Use when creating functions, configuring triggers, debugging invocations, optimizing cold starts, setting up event source mappings, or managing layers.

AWS RDS relational database service for managed databases. Use when provisioning databases, configuring backups, managing replicas, troubleshooting connectivity, or optimizing performance.

AWS S3 object storage for bucket management, object operations, and access control. Use when creating buckets, uploading files, configuring lifecycle policies, setting up static websites, managing permissions, or implementing cross-region replication.

AWS Secrets Manager for secure secret storage and rotation. Use when storing credentials, configuring automatic rotation, managing secret versions, retrieving secrets in applications, or integrating with RDS.

AWS SNS notification service for pub/sub messaging. Use when creating topics, managing subscriptions, configuring message filtering, sending notifications, or setting up mobile push.

AWS SQS message queue service for decoupled architectures. Use when creating queues, configuring dead-letter queues, managing visibility timeouts, implementing FIFO ordering, or integrating with Lambda.

AWS Step Functions workflow orchestration with state machines. Use when designing workflows, implementing error handling, configuring parallel execution, integrating with AWS services, or debugging executions.