infrastructure-cost-optimization

SKILL.md

Infrastructure Cost Optimization

Table of Contents

Overview

When to Use

Quick Start

Reference Guides

Best Practices

Overview

Reduce infrastructure costs through intelligent resource allocation, reserved instances, spot instances, and continuous optimization without sacrificing performance.

When to Use

Cloud cost reduction

Budget management and tracking

Resource utilization optimization

Multi-environment cost allocation

Waste identification and elimination

Reserved instance planning

Spot instance integration

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# cost-optimization-setup.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: cost-optimization-scripts
  namespace: operations
data:
  analyze-costs.sh: |
    #!/bin/bash
    set -euo pipefail

    echo "=== AWS Cost Analysis ==="

    # Get daily cost trend
    echo "Daily costs for last 7 days:"
    aws ce get-cost-and-usage \
      --time-period Start=$(date -d '7 days ago' +%Y-%m-%d),End=$(date +%Y-%m-%d) \
      --granularity DAILY \
      --metrics "BlendedCost" \
      --group-by Type=DIMENSION,Key=SERVICE \
      --query 'ResultsByTime[*].[TimePeriod.Start,Total.BlendedCost.Amount]' \
      --output table

    # Find unattached resources
    echo -e "\n=== Unattached EBS Volumes ==="
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide
Contents

AWS Cost Optimization Configuration
AWS Cost Optimization Configuration

Kubernetes Cost Optimization
Kubernetes Cost Optimization

Cost Monitoring Dashboard
Cost Monitoring Dashboard

Best Practices

✅ DO

Follow established patterns and conventions

Write clean, maintainable code

Add appropriate documentation

Test thoroughly before deploying

❌ DON'T

Skip testing or validation

Ignore error handling

Hard-code configuration values

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