aws-compare

A side-by-side comparison of two or three Amazon Web Services architecture options. It evaluates cost, complexity, speed, security, and the amount of ongoing operational work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding between AWS architectures or implementation approaches and you need a clear comparison of their practical consequences.
Why use it?
It makes the trade-offs between cloud designs easier to compare before choosing an approach. AWS is Amazon’s cloud platform for running applications and infrastructure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups/aws-compare
Any agent
npx skills add aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups --skill aws-compare
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 699 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00044 $0.00699
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00070

Measured 2d ago against content hash 57a6d70c6499, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-compare 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 2d 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/aws-dev-toolkit/skills/aws-compare/SKILL.md · 80 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed MIT-0

The repository is licensed MIT-0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 80 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 57a6d70c6499

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aws-compare is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups (13 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT-0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 699 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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