Curated agentic AI skills for AWS platform engineering, delivered through any coding agent
APEX Skills is a collection of agent skills that provide AWS platform-engineering knowledge and workflows to coding agents. Engineers use it for tasks involving services such as Amazon EKS and Kubernetes. The catalogue entries are its skills and agents.
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
EKS cost efficiency assessment — 6-dimension analysis, weighted 0-100 Cost Score, and dollar-quantified remediation report. Analyzes compute efficiency, Spot/Graviton adoption, networking, storage, observability, and idle resources. Triggers on cost audit, cost review, cost driver analysis, FinOps assessment, spending…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Perform a structured EKS operational excellence assessment against a live cluster. Covers 10 areas: cluster lifecycle, infrastructure as code, access and identity, observability, workload configuration, networking, autoscaling, deployment practices, operational processes, and add-on management. Produces a…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
EKS cluster reconnaissance and environment discovery — reports the raw FACTS of a cluster and its environment. Detects compute (Karpenter, MNG, Auto Mode, Fargate, nodes/AMI), networking (VPC/CNI, subnets, load balancers, DNS), security facts (auth mode, IRSA/Pod Identity, RBAC, encryption), add-ons/Helm…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
EKS security and compliance assessment — 7-layer hardening stack, CIS/HIPAA/PCI/FedRAMP/SOC2/GDPR audit prep, and 30/60/90 roadmap. Covers OS/AMI selection (Bottlerocket, AL2023, RHEL, Ubuntu), identity (EKS Pod Identity vs IRSA, Access Entries vs aws-auth), workload security (Pod Security Admission, Kyverno/OPA…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Assess EKS cluster upgrade readiness by running automated checks across 8 areas (version validation, breaking changes, deprecated APIs, add-on compatibility, node readiness, workload risks, AWS Upgrade Insights, upgrade plan), calculate a readiness score (0-100%), and generate a detailed report with remediation steps…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
EKS cluster reconnaissance and environment discovery. Detects compute strategy, IaC tooling, CI/CD pipelines, add-on inventory, networking, security posture, and observability.
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
RDS architecture best practices for production workloads. Covers Multi-AZ, read replicas, parameter groups, backup strategy, and security configuration.
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Skill Claude Code ✓ vendor
Generates IaC (CloudFormation or CDK) and a deployment guide to deploy a .NET workload to Amazon ECS Fargate on Linux containers with an Application Load Balancer. Produces a VPC, ECS cluster, task definition, ALB, and auto-scaling. NOT for Windows containers, EC2 launch type, or Kubernetes/EKS deployments.
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Use when choosing and architecting an Amazon ECS deployment model for a NEW workload — Fargate vs ECS on EC2 vs Managed Instances vs Express Mode vs ECS Anywhere/External — plus capacity-provider strategy, task sizing, awsvpc/ENI density, networking, service parameters, and launch-type or topology migration (EC2…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Use when building Amazon ECS infrastructure with Terraform, generating apply-ready code for ECS clusters, services, and task definitions across three capacity models — Fargate (FARGATESPOT as capacity provider), EC2 Auto Scaling group providers, and ECS Managed Instances. Covers rolling/blue-green/linear/canary…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Use when someone is deploying, releasing, or shipping software to Amazon ECS — phrased as "blue/green deployment on ECS", "canary deployment for my ECS service", "set up CI/CD for ECS", "GitHub Actions deploy to Fargate", "my ECS deployment is stuck", "ECS deployment circuit breaker", "ECS task sets", or "migrate off…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Use whenever someone runs a GPU / ML / GenAI / LLM workload on Amazon ECS: GPU on ECS, ECS GPU-optimized AMI, g4dn/g5/g6/p4/p5 on ECS, which ECS launch type for GPU, Inferentia/Trainium/Neuron on ECS, distributed training, model inference or vLLM/Triton/TGI/Ray on ECS, Capacity Blocks, GPU sharing, ASG per GPU type.…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Assess an existing app (VMware/EC2) by source code analysis for the replatform vs rearchitect decision, and execute the approved migration onto Amazon ECS. Scope: assessment, strategy decision, migration execution. Covers: source code analysis; language/framework detection (Java, .NET, Spring, Struts, WebSphere…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Advise on Amazon ECS observability architecture — select the logs/metrics/traces stack (CloudWatch, Container Insights, X-Ray, ADOT/OpenTelemetry, Managed Prometheus/Grafana, FireLens to third-party) by compliance needs, existing tooling, scale, budget, and launch types (EC2, Fargate, Managed Instances, ECS Anywhere).…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Run a structured Amazon ECS operational-excellence assessment against a live estate (Fargate/EC2/Managed Instances/ECS Anywhere) and score it GREEN/AMBER/RED. Skip for EKS/Kubernetes (use eks-operation-review). Covers 8 domains — clusters & capacity, networking, task definitions, services & deployment safety (circuit…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
ECS environment reconnaissance and discovery. Detects compute and capacity providers, task definitions, deployment configuration, auto scaling, networking, security posture, observability, and IaC/CI-CD tooling. Use when someone asks about their ECS environment, wants to describe a cluster, inspect a service, or…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Security and compliance guidance for Amazon ECS — "ECS was unable to assume the role", task role vs execution role, iam:PassRole, confused-deputy aws:SourceArn trust, Fargate vs EC2 shared responsibility, injecting Secrets Manager/SSM secrets (trailing-colon JSON-key gotcha), readonlyRootFilesystem / non-root / drop…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Advisory guidance for Amazon EKS architecture and configuration — compute strategy, networking, security, reliability, cost, autoscaling, observability, multi-tenancy, upgrade planning, on-prem/hybrid (EKS Hybrid Nodes, EKS Anywhere, Outposts), and surge readiness for planned traffic peaks. Also answers…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Use when building EKS clusters. Generates complete, production-ready Terraform projects with optional ArgoCD GitOps integration. Handles environment-specific constraints: air-gapped/VPC-endpoint-only networks, enterprise proxies, private container registries, compliance requirements. Supports 3 patterns: full…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Use when designing EKS architecture. Generates design documents with Mermaid diagrams, ADRs, security architecture, and validation reports. Translates requirements into tailored EKS designs guided by Well-Architected best practices. Covers cluster architecture, compute, networking, security, addons, observability…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Use whenever someone is building, training, fine-tuning, or serving a generative AI / LLM workload on Amazon EKS — phrased as "GPU vs Trainium/Inferentia", "vLLM on EKS", "Ray Serve / KubeRay", "distributed training on EKS", "FSx for Lustre for ML", "Karpenter for GPU", "EFA / NCCL multi-node", "DCGM / Neuron…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Assess a live EKS cluster's NGINX/Ingress estate and plan migration to Gateway API, the AWS Load Balancer Controller (ALB Ingress), or AWS Transform (ATX). Discovers ingress controllers and routes, scores migration difficulty 0–100 with a separate re-architecture gate, and generates per-cluster reports plus…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Install, configure, and troubleshoot the EKS MCP Server connection in your AI assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro). Use ONLY for MCP server setup problems — config file location (.mcp.json), IAM permissions for eks-mcp actions, uvx installation, choosing AWS-hosted vs self-hosted mode, or debugging why MCP tools fail…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor
Use whenever someone is designing or building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or doing platform engineering on Amazon EKS — phrased as "build a developer platform", "self-service for developers", "golden paths", "IDP", or "set up Backstage / ArgoCD / Kargo". Covers the opinionated platform stack — developer…
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