optimizing-cloud-costs
About
This skill enables Claude to analyze cloud infrastructure and provide actionable cost optimization recommendations. It identifies savings opportunities, generates cost reports, and suggests production-ready configuration changes for AWS, Azure, or GCP environments. Developers should use it when requesting cloud spending reductions, cost reports, or optimization strategies.
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Overview
This skill empowers Claude to be a FinOps expert, helping users identify and implement strategies to minimize their cloud expenditures. By analyzing current resource utilization and suggesting optimized configurations, it ensures efficient cloud spending.
How It Works
- Analyzing Cost Data: Claude analyzes the user's request to identify the scope and cloud provider (if specified).
- Generating Optimization Recommendations: Claude formulates specific recommendations to reduce costs, such as rightsizing instances, identifying unused resources, or leveraging reserved instances.
- Creating Cost Report: Claude generates a detailed cost report summarizing current spending and potential savings.
When to Use This Skill
This skill activates when you need to:
- Reduce your AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud spending.
- Generate a report detailing current cloud costs.
- Identify underutilized or unused cloud resources.
Examples
Example 1: Reducing AWS EC2 Costs
User request: "Optimize my AWS EC2 costs. I'm running several t3.medium instances."
The skill will:
- Analyze the usage patterns of the t3.medium instances.
- Suggest rightsizing to t3.small or using reserved instances if utilization is consistently high.
- Generate a cost report showing potential savings from the recommended changes.
Example 2: Identifying Idle Azure Resources
User request: "Generate a report of idle resources in my Azure subscription."
The skill will:
- Identify any virtual machines, storage accounts, or other resources that have been idle for a specified period.
- Recommend terminating or deallocating the idle resources.
- Provide a cost report detailing the savings achieved by removing the idle resources.
Best Practices
- Resource Utilization: Regularly review resource utilization metrics to identify opportunities for rightsizing.
- Reserved Instances: Leverage reserved instances or committed use discounts for consistently used resources.
- Cost Monitoring: Implement continuous cost monitoring and alerting to track spending trends and identify anomalies.
Integration
This skill can be used in conjunction with other DevOps plugins to automate the implementation of cost optimization recommendations. For example, it can integrate with infrastructure-as-code tools to automatically resize instances or terminate unused resources.
Quick Install
/plugin add https://github.com/jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus/tree/main/cloud-cost-optimizerCopy and paste this command in Claude Code to install this skill
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