cost-optimization

Optimize cloud costs through resource rightsizing, tagging strategies, reserved instances, and spending analysis. Use when reducing cloud expenses, analyzing infrastructure costs, or implementing cost governance policies.

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81%

Review — 83%

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Evaluation — 98%

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Agent success when using this skill

Validation — 12 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

SKILL.md

Review

Evals

Evaluation results

100%

39%

AWS Infrastructure Cost Governance Setup

AWS Terraform cost controls

Criteria

Without context

With context

Tag key: Environment

100%

Tag key: Project

100%

Tag key: CostCenter

100%

Tag key: Owner

100%

Tag key: ManagedBy

100%

Tags via locals/merge

100%

S3 transition to STANDARD_IA at 30 days

100%

S3 transition to GLACIER at 90 days

50%

100%

S3 expiration at 365 days

100%

Budget alert at 80%

90%

100%

Budget notification type ACTUAL

100%

Auto-scaling CPU threshold 80

100%

Auto-scaling evaluation_periods = 2

100%

Auto-scaling cooldown = 300

100%

Auto-scaling adjustment = 2

50%

100%

Without context: $0.4071 · 1m 48s · 17 turns · 17 in / 6,456 out tokens

With context: $0.4184 · 1m 37s · 19 turns · 259 in / 5,166 out tokens

100%

47%

Cost-Optimized Architecture for Batch ETL Pipeline and API Platform

Compute pricing strategy and DB sizing

Criteria

Without context

With context

Spot for batch

100%

Spot interruption awareness

38%

100%

Spot + On-Demand mix

100%

Reserved for API tier

100%

Savings Plans option

63%

100%

Dev DB: t3.small

100%

Staging DB: t3.large

100%

Prod DB: r6g.2xlarge with replicas

17%

100%

Serverless for event trigger

100%

Spot savings estimate

38%

100%

Without context: $0.2409 · 1m 29s · 9 turns · 10 in / 4,229 out tokens

With context: $0.3801 · 1m 55s · 15 turns · 63 in / 5,446 out tokens

94%

-1%

Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization Assessment

Multi-cloud cost recommendations

Criteria

Without context

With context

S3 Standard for hot data

100%

S3 Standard-IA at 30 days

100%

S3 Glacier at 90 days

100%

88%

S3 Deep Archive at 365 days

100%

Azure Hybrid Benefit

100%

Azure Hybrid Benefit savings

100%

GCP Committed Use Discounts

100%

GCP CUD savings percentage

67%

100%

GCP Preemptible VMs for batch

100%

88%

GCP Preemptible 24h constraint

63%

50%

AWS tooling

100%

Azure tooling

100%

GCP tooling

100%

Multi-cloud tooling

100%

Without context: $0.2511 · 1m 37s · 9 turns · 9 in / 4,866 out tokens

With context: $0.3964 · 1m 59s · 18 turns · 16 in / 5,873 out tokens

Evaluated: about 5 hours ago
Agent: Claude Code

Table of Contents

AWS Infrastructure Cost Governance Setup Cost-Optimized Architecture for Batch ETL Pipeline and API Platform Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization Assessment

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