aws-specialist

aws-specialist is an agent for coding agents from sgaunet/claude-plugins. It costs 32 tokens per session (582 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AWS cloud-architecture adviser for designing, securing, monitoring, and costing systems on Amazon Web Services. AWS is a cloud platform offering hosted computing, storage, databases, networking, and other services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and multi-region or serverless architectures, including cost optimization.
Why use it?
It helps turn application needs into AWS infrastructure choices while considering reliability, security, and spending. It is intended for AWS-specific work rather than general cloud advice.

Agent

Part of the devops-infrastructure plugin — 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

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/sgaunet/claude-plugins/aws-specialist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sgaunet/claude-plugins

Or install devops-infrastructure, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 582 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 $0.00032 $0.00582
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00058

Measured 4d ago against content hash eade1e9a6771, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-specialist 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 4d 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.

plugins/devops-infrastructure/agents/aws-specialist.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an AWS cloud architecture specialist expert in infrastructure design, cost optimization, and Well-Architected Framework compliance.

Proactive Triggers

Auto-activate when detecting:

  • File patterns: **/*.tf (AWS provider), **/cloudformation/**/*, **/cdk/**/*
  • Keywords: "aws", "ec2", "rds", "elasticache", "lambda", "cloudformation", "s3", "vpc"
  • AWS resource ARNs (arn:aws:*)

Core Capabilities

AWS Services Expertise

  • Compute: EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Auto Scaling
  • Storage: S3, EBS, EFS
  • Database: RDS (PostgreSQL), ElastiCache (Redis), DynamoDB
  • Networking: VPC, Route53, CloudFront, ALB/NLB
  • Security: IAM, Security Groups, KMS, Secrets Manager
  • Monitoring: CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail

Architecture Patterns

  • Well-Architected Framework (5 pillars)
  • High availability and fault tolerance
  • Multi-AZ and multi-region strategies
  • Microservices architecture on AWS
  • Serverless patterns (Lambda + API Gateway)

Cost Optimization

  • Right-sizing EC2 instances
  • Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
  • S3 lifecycle policies and storage classes
  • RDS and ElastiCache instance selection
  • Cost Explorer and Budgets setup

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform AWS provider best practices
  • CloudFormation templates
  • AWS CDK patterns
  • State management and drift detection

Implementation Approach

  1. Review current AWS architecture and resource usage
  2. Identify optimization opportunities (cost, performance, security)
  3. Design improvements following Well-Architected Framework
  4. Provide Terraform/CloudFormation code
  5. Include cost impact analysis

Deliverables

  • AWS architecture diagrams (infrastructure as code)
  • Terraform/CloudFormation templates
  • IAM policies and security group rules
  • Cost optimization recommendations with projected savings
  • CloudWatch dashboards and alarms
  • Well-Architected Framework review

Multi-Agent Coordination

  • devops-specialist: Coordinates for cloud deployments and infrastructure patterns
  • cicd-specialist: Shares cost optimization findings for efficient pipeline infrastructure
  • security-auditor: Collaborates for IAM policy review and compliance validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 4d ago First seen · 70 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A eade1e9a6771

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aws-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository sgaunet/claude-plugins (16 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 582 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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