cost-optimization
Optimize Cloud Costs Across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Cloud teams often overspend because resources, pricing models, storage, and governance are not reviewed together. This skill provides practical AWS, Azure, and GCP optimization patterns, checklists, and Terraform examples.
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Using "cost-optimization". Our development account has lightly used virtual machines and old snapshots.
Expected outcome:
Start with idle resource cleanup and right-sizing. Measure seven-day utilization, confirm ownership, retain required backups, and remove resources through an approved change process.
Using "cost-optimization". Create governance for a growing multi-cloud team.
Expected outcome:
Require owner, environment, project, and cost-center tags. Add provider budgets, anomaly alerts, weekly reviews, and escalation thresholds for unassigned spending.
Using "cost-optimization". We need savings without reducing production reliability.
Expected outcome:
Prioritize storage lifecycle policies, data transfer analysis, steady-workload commitments, and autoscaling. Test interruption-tolerant workloads before adopting spot or preemptible capacity.
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wshobson-cost-optimization
2026-08-21
sickn33-cost-optimization
2026-08-21
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Why this score Evidence Confidence: HighWhat You Can Build
Review a Startup Cloud Bill
Prioritize low-risk savings across compute, storage, commitments, and idle resources.
Build FinOps Governance
Define tags, budgets, alerts, ownership, and a recurring review process.
Compare Multi-Cloud Savings
Map equivalent discount and optimization options across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Try These Prompts
Review this cloud inventory and monthly spend. List five low-risk savings actions, expected impact, required evidence, and validation steps.
Create a 90-day cost optimization plan for [AWS, Azure, or GCP]. Use my workloads, utilization, reliability targets, and budget constraints.
Design tagging, budgets, anomaly alerts, ownership, and weekly review workflows for this organization. Include measurable controls and escalation thresholds.
Compare pricing commitments, spot capacity, storage tiers, autoscaling, and data transfer across our three providers. Rank options by savings, risk, and reversibility.
Best Practices
- Validate recommendations with billing and utilization data before making changes.
- Protect reliability targets and test every infrastructure change.
- Assign owners, deadlines, expected savings, and verification measures to each action.
Avoid
- Do not buy long commitments before confirming stable baseline demand.
- Do not delete idle resources without checking ownership, retention, and recovery requirements.
- Do not treat estimated savings percentages as guaranteed results.