What is cloud-storage-optimization?

A guide for reducing the cost and improving the organization and access speed of data stored in AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, or Google Cloud Storage.

Use it to compress and partition data, move older data to archive tiers with lifecycle rules, organize data lakes or warehouses, improve retrieval, and manage compliance-related storage needs.

It helps prevent storage bills and retrieval times from growing unnecessarily as datasets become larger or older data is accessed less often.

cloud-storage-optimization — Skill by aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

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-storage-optimization

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

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README.md

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 640 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 pass 15 Sept 2026
Snyk pass 15 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	$0.00034	$0.00640
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00256
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00128
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00064

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ba7921568856, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-storage-optimization 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-storage-optimization/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Optimize cloud storage costs and performance across multiple cloud providers using compression, intelligent tiering, data partitioning, and lifecycle management. Reduce storage costs while maintaining accessibility and compliance requirements.

When to Use

Reducing storage costs
Optimizing data access patterns
Implementing tiered storage strategies
Archiving historical data
Improving data retrieval performance
Managing compliance requirements
Organizing large datasets
Optimizing data lakes and data warehouses

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Enable Intelligent-Tiering
aws s3api put-bucket-intelligent-tiering-configuration \
  --bucket my-bucket \
  --id OptimizedStorage \
  --intelligent-tiering-configuration '{
    "Id": "OptimizedStorage",
    "Filter": {"Prefix": "data/"},
    "Status": "Enabled",
    "Tierings": [
      {
        "Days": 90,
        "AccessTier": "ARCHIVE_ACCESS"
      },
      {
        "Days": 180,
        "AccessTier": "DEEP_ARCHIVE_ACCESS"
      }
    ]
  }'

# Analyze storage usage
aws s3api list-bucket-metrics-configurations --bucket my-bucket

# Enable S3 Select for cost optimization
aws s3api put-bucket-metrics-configuration \
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide	Contents
AWS S3 Storage Optimization	AWS S3 Storage Optimization
Data Compression and Partitioning Strategy	Data Compression and Partitioning Strategy
Terraform Multi-Cloud Storage Configuration	Terraform Multi-Cloud Storage Configuration
Data Lake Partitioning Strategy	Data Lake Partitioning Strategy

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 98 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A ba7921568856

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cloud-storage-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (376 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 640 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.

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