multi-tenant-isolation

multi-tenant-isolation is a skill for Claude Code from awslabs/startups. It costs 166 tokens per session (1,894 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A design guide for keeping one SaaS customer’s data and resources separate from every other customer’s on AWS. It compares dedicated, shared, and partitioned isolation models for each system layer.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports architecture decisions for multi-tenant SaaS databases, compute, and other AWS layers.
Why use it?
It helps prevent cross-customer data leaks while keeping infrastructure costs suitable for a startup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aws-startups-solution-architecture plugin — 2 skills shipped together

About the project

AWS Startups is an official AWS repository containing plugins, skills, tools, and other resources for people building startup products on Amazon Web Services. Its add-ons support startup-focused architecture, migration, and development work on AWS.

awslabs/startups · 17 stars · on GitHub

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/awslabs/startups/multi-tenant-isolation
Any agent
npx skills add awslabs/startups --skill multi-tenant-isolation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/awslabs/startups

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aws-startups-solution-architecture, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,894 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00166 $0.01894
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.00947
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00189

Measured 4d ago against content hash b514731d64e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

multi-tenant-isolation 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 4d 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.

solution-architecture/plugins/aws-startups-solution-architecture/skills/multi-tenant-isolation/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Multi-Tenant Isolation on AWS

Tenant isolation is the architectural decision a SaaS startup is least able to reverse and most likely to get wrong under time pressure. Getting it wrong produces either a cross-tenant data leak, which is an existential incident for a company selling to businesses, or a per-tenant cost floor that makes the unit economics never work.

The mistake is treating it as one decision. It is a decision per layer, and the layers can differ.

Choose a model per layer, not per application

Model What it means Isolation Cost per tenant Where it fits
Silo Dedicated resource per tenant Strongest, enforced by resource boundary Highest, floors multiply Regulated or contractual isolation, or one customer large enough to fund it
Pool Shared resource, logical separation Weakest, depends on your correctness Lowest, marginal per tenant Default for most tenants, especially self-serve
Bridge Shared infrastructure, dedicated slice inside it Middle, enforced by partition Low to medium Pooled compute with per-tenant schema or table

Pick per layer. A common and correct shape: pooled compute, bridge-model database (schema or partition key per tenant), siloed only for the customer whose contract requires it.

The trap. Going full silo because it is easier to reason about, then discovering the fixed floors multiply by tenant count. Each dedicated Aurora Serverless v2 cluster carries a floor around 0.5 ACU whether or not the tenant is active. Each OpenSearch Serverless collection carries a substantial monthly minimum. Ten silo tenants on floored services is a large bill for near-zero usage. Verify current minimums with the aws-billing-and-cost-management skill in aws-core before committing to a silo model, since these change.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 99 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A b514731d64e0

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multi-tenant-isolation is a skill published in the GitHub repository awslabs/startups (17 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 1,894 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-02.

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