What is cloud-cost-management?

Guidance for tracking and reducing spending on cloud services from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It covers reserved capacity, spot pricing, resource sizing, monitoring, and cost allocation.

Use it to review compute, database, storage, and data-transfer costs, forecast spending, set alerts, and allocate costs.

It helps identify wasted or excessive infrastructure spending and plan cloud budgets.

cloud-cost-management — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by aj-geddes

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.

Any agent

npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill cloud-cost-management

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 682 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 16 Sept 2026
Snyk warn 16 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00029	$0.00682
Opus 5.5	$0.00012	$0.00273
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00136
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00068

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 3bcd881fdf7c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-cost-management 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 2mo 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/cloud-cost-management/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Cloud cost management involves monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing cloud spending. Implement strategies using reserved instances, spot pricing, proper sizing, and cost allocation to maximize ROI and prevent budget overruns.

When to Use

Reducing cloud infrastructure costs
Optimizing compute spending
Managing database costs
Storage optimization
Data transfer cost reduction
Reserved capacity planning
Chargeback and cost allocation
Budget forecasting and alerts

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Enable Cost Explorer
aws ce get-cost-and-usage \
  --time-period Start=2024-01-01,End=2024-01-31 \
  --granularity MONTHLY \
  --metrics "UnblendedCost" \
  --group-by Type=DIMENSION,Key=SERVICE

# List EC2 instances for right-sizing
aws ec2 describe-instances \
  --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].[InstanceId,InstanceType,State.Name,LaunchTime,Tag]' \
  --output table

# Find unattached EBS volumes
aws ec2 describe-volumes \
  --filters Name=status,Values=available \
  --query 'Volumes[*].[VolumeId,Size,State,CreateTime]'

# Identify unattached Elastic IPs
aws ec2 describe-addresses \
  --query 'Addresses[?AssociationId==null]'

# Get RDS instance costs
aws rds describe-db-instances \
  --query 'DBInstances[*].[DBInstanceIdentifier,DBInstanceClass,StorageType,AllocatedStorage]'

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

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide	Contents
AWS Cost Optimization with AWS CLI	AWS Cost Optimization with AWS CLI
Terraform Cost Management Configuration	Terraform Cost Management Configuration
Azure Cost Management	Azure Cost Management
GCP Cost Optimization	GCP Cost Optimization
Cost Monitoring Dashboard	Cost Monitoring Dashboard

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

2mo ago First seen · 100 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 3bcd881fdf7c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cloud-cost-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (376 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 682 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Cloud DevOps and cloud Finance and fintech

cloud-cost-management next to 6 skills from other repositories
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cloud-cost-managementaj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts	Skill	376	8mo ago	MIT	A	29	Claude Code, Codex
aws-cost-operationssickn33/agentic-awesome-skills	Skill	49k	yesterday	MIT	A	44	Claude Code
aws-cost-cleanupsickn33/agentic-awesome-skills	Skill	49k	yesterday	MIT	A	15	Claude Code
azure-computemicrosoft/skills	Skill	3.2k	yesterday	MIT	A	154	Claude Code
azure-costmicrosoft/skills	Skill	3.2k	yesterday	MIT	A	94	Claude Code
cost-estimationmicrosoft/skills	Skill	3.2k	yesterday	MIT	A	97	Claude Code
cost-governancemicrosoft/skills	Skill	3.2k	yesterday	MIT	A	99	Claude Code

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