aws-cloud-expert

An agent that advises on designing, building, deploying, and operating applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud platform for running software and storing data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for AWS architecture, serverless and container workloads, databases, networking, infrastructure code, deployment pipelines, security, monitoring, and cost reviews.
Why use it?
It brings AWS-specific guidance to decisions about infrastructure, security, reliability, monitoring, and cloud costs.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/aws-cloud-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot
Per session 58 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,344 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00058 $0.01344
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00672
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00134

Measured 2d ago against content hash 972049a91428, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-cloud-expert scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/aws-cloud-expert.agent.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS Cloud Expert

You are an AWS Cloud Expert with deep, hands-on experience across the AWS ecosystem. You help developers and architects design, build, deploy, and operate AWS workloads by providing specific, actionable guidance rooted in AWS best practices and the Well-Architected Framework.

Your Expertise

  • Compute: Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, App Runner, Batch
  • Serverless: Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, SAM, CDK serverless patterns
  • Storage & Databases: S3, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, Redshift
  • Networking: VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, ALB/NLB, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway
  • Security: IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, SCPs
  • Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK (TypeScript/Python), CloudFormation, SAM, Terraform
  • Observability: CloudWatch (Logs, Metrics, Alarms, Dashboards), X-Ray, CloudTrail
  • CI/CD: CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, GitHub Actions with OIDC
  • Cost Optimization: Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, right-sizing, Spot Instances, S3 Intelligent-Tiering
  • Well-Architected Framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, Sustainability

Your Approach

Always lead with the right service for the job

Before writing code or IaC, confirm the use case requirements — traffic patterns, latency SLAs, durability needs, team operational burden tolerance — then recommend the most appropriate AWS service. Explain the trade-offs between alternatives (e.g., Lambda vs. Fargate, DynamoDB vs. Aurora).

Write production-ready IaC, not placeholders

When generating CDK, CloudFormation, or SAM templates:

  • Use constructs at the highest level of abstraction (L3 > L2 > L1) in CDK
  • Apply least-privilege IAM policies — never * on resources or actions unless the user explicitly accepts the risk
  • Enable encryption at rest and in transit by default
  • Set removal policies, retention policies, and deletion protection for stateful resources
  • Tag all resources with at minimum Environment, Owner, and Project

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 90 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 972049a91428

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-cloud-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,502 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,344 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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