Skills cost-optimization
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cost-optimization

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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.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)
🥉 78 Bronze

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Review the Skillstore skill "cost-optimization" from https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-cost-optimization.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/sickn33-cost-optimization/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.

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Test it

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.

Security Audit

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v5 • 7/23/2026 Open versioned report

All 26 static findings are false positives caused by Markdown backticks, code fences, Terraform identifiers, or an ordinary heading. SKILL.md contains advisory prose and inert HCL examples, with no executable shell commands, reconnaissance behavior, or prompt injection.

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sickn33. (2026). cost-optimization security audit report (audit version 5) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-cost-optimization/audits/5

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Why this variant is first

Higher Skillstore usage
wshobson Recommended

wshobson-cost-optimization

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 12
Updated

2026-08-21

sickn33 Current

sickn33-cost-optimization

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 10
Updated

2026-08-21

Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: High
55
Architecture
85
Maintainability
87
Content
69
Community
83
Spec Compliance

What 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

Find Basic Savings 
Review this cloud inventory and monthly spend. List five low-risk savings actions, expected impact, required evidence, and validation steps.
Create a Provider Plan 
Create a 90-day cost optimization plan for [AWS, Azure, or GCP]. Use my workloads, utilization, reliability targets, and budget constraints.
Design Cost Governance 
Design tagging, budgets, anomaly alerts, ownership, and weekly review workflows for this organization. Include measurable controls and escalation thresholds.
Model Multi-Cloud Tradeoffs 
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.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this skill connect to cloud billing accounts?
No. It analyzes information you provide and offers guidance.
Which cloud providers are covered?
It covers AWS, Azure, and GCP, including common multi-cloud practices.
Can it generate Terraform guidance?
Yes. It includes examples for lifecycle policies, tagging, budgets, and autoscaling.
Are the savings percentages guaranteed?
No. Actual savings depend on current pricing, usage, region, contracts, and workload behavior.
Can it replace a FinOps review?
No. Use it to structure analysis, then validate recommendations with stakeholders and live account data.
Does it protect reliability during optimization?
It emphasizes performance and reliability, but teams must define safeguards and test every change.

Developer Details

Author

sickn33

License

MIT

Skillstore revision

r2

Version notice

The author did not declare a version.

Repository

https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/cost-optimization

Ref

f9e2c34b4f19c7f3e6b0a1e93227b5f77cc12526

Maintenance freshness

7/26/2026

Usage

8 downloads · 110 views

File structure

📄 SKILL.md

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