aws-ec2-setup

aws-ec2-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 39 tokens per session (617 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for launching and configuring Amazon EC2, which provides virtual computers rented in Amazon's cloud.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up servers for websites, APIs, batch jobs, development environments, containers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, VPNs, and proxy services.
Why use it?
It organizes the network, access, storage, and scaling settings needed to run a cloud server safely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Setting up servers for websites, APIs, batch jobs, development environments, containers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, VPNs, and proxy services.

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Install

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Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill aws-ec2-setup
Clone the repo
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Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 617 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket warn 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 4 Mar 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00039 $0.00617
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00062

Measured 11d ago against content hash 423abe341940, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-ec2-setup 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-config.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/aws-ec2-setup/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS EC2 Setup

Table of Contents

Overview

Amazon EC2 provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Launch and configure virtual servers with complete control over networking, storage, and security settings. Scale automatically based on demand.

When to Use

  • Web application servers
  • Application backends and APIs
  • Batch processing and compute jobs
  • Development and testing environments
  • Containerized applications (ECS)
  • Kubernetes clusters (EKS)
  • Database servers
  • VPN and proxy servers

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Create security group
aws ec2 create-security-group \
  --group-name web-server-sg \
  --description "Web server security group" \
  --vpc-id vpc-12345678

# Add ingress rules
aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress \
  --group-id sg-0123456789abcdef0 \
  --protocol tcp \
  --port 80 \
  --cidr 0.0.0.0/0

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress \
  --group-id sg-0123456789abcdef0 \
  --protocol tcp \
  --port 443 \
  --cidr 0.0.0.0/0

aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress \
  --group-id sg-0123456789abcdef0 \
  --protocol tcp \
  --port 22 \
  --cidr YOUR_IP/32

// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
EC2 Instance Creation with AWS CLI EC2 Instance Creation with AWS CLI
User Data Script User Data Script
Terraform EC2 Configuration Terraform EC2 Configuration

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Use security groups for network control
  • Attach IAM roles for AWS access
  • Enable CloudWatch monitoring
  • Use AMI for consistent deployments
  • Implement auto-scaling for variable load
  • Use EBS for persistent storage
  • Enable termination protection for production
  • Keep systems patched and updated

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 97 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 423abe341940

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aws-ec2-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (336 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 617 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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