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AWS Cost & Operations

A cloud-ops skill that analyzes AWS bills, estimates costs, builds CloudWatch alarms and audits CloudTrail through dedicated MCP servers.

Data & AnalyticsIntermediate★ 367⑂ 39AI score 9/10Last updated: Jun 15, 2026

What it does

  • Uses the AWS Pricing MCP for pre-deployment cost estimates and cross-region price comparisons.
  • Uses Cost Explorer MCP to analyze spend trends, spot anomalies, break costs down by service/region/tag and forecast.
  • Uses CloudWatch MCP to query metrics and logs and to define alarms (Lambda errors, EC2 CPU, DynamoDB throttling, API Gateway 5xx).
  • Guides CloudTrail auditing ("who changed this?") and Well-Architected security assessments.
  • Ships reference docs references/operations-patterns.md and references/cloudwatch-alarms.md with per-service alarm recipes.

Who it's for

  • Developers and infra engineers chasing an unexpected AWS bill spike
  • Solution architects who must size monthly cost before building
  • Small-team DevOps engineers setting up monitoring and alerting from scratch

Examples

  1. "Estimate the monthly cost of a 512MB, 3-second Lambda with 1M invocations in us-east-1"
  2. "Show the last 3 months of spend by service and flag anomalies"
  3. "Use CloudTrail to find who deleted this S3 bucket and when"

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/zxkane/aws-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r aws-skills/plugins/aws-cost-ops/skills/aws-cost-operations ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/zxkane/aws-skills.git
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Copy the skill: cp -r aws-skills/plugins/aws-cost-ops/skills/aws-cost-operations ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Install the AWS CLI and run aws configure with credentials that can read Cost Explorer, CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
  5. Follow the bundled aws-mcp-setup skill to register the pricing, costexp and cw MCP servers.
  6. Restart Claude Code and try: "Analyze last month's AWS spend by service."
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT