aws-billing-and-cost-management

SKILL.md

Billing and Cost Management

Overview

Analyze, optimize, and manage AWS costs. This skill encodes domain expertise from AWS's cost management products — gotchas, correct API usage patterns, and optimization workflows that models frequently get wrong.

Usage

Use this skill when:

Analyzing AWS spending, cost trends, or cost breakdowns

Setting up or managing budget alerts

Evaluating Savings Plans or Reserved Instance purchases

Right-sizing EC2, Lambda, RDS, or EBS resources

Looking up AWS service pricing

Running cost audits or investigating cost spikes

Querying CUR data with Athena

Scoping cost analysis to a specific billing view

Checking Free Tier usage