aws-cloudformation-rds

aws-cloudformation-rds is a skill for Claude Code from giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit. It costs 65 tokens per session (2,795 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A collection of AWS CloudFormation patterns for Amazon RDS, AWS's managed database service. It covers database instances, Aurora clusters, networking, settings, credentials, and stack links.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Aurora databases, multi-zone deployments, subnet and parameter groups, security groups, Secrets Manager links, and cross-stack references.
Why use it?
It provides a known template structure for defining database infrastructure as code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the developer-kit-aws plugin — 19 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Creating MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Aurora databases, multi-zone deployments, subnet and parameter groups, security groups, Secrets Manager links, and cross-stack references.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit/aws-cloudformation-rds
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 giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit --skill aws-cloudformation-rds
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install developer-kit-aws, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,795 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.02795
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01398
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00280

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3dd491a88a85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aws-cloudformation-rds 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 9d 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/developer-kit-aws/skills/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-rds/SKILL.md · 349 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 349 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AWS CloudFormation RDS Database

Overview

Create production-ready Amazon RDS infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation templates. Covers RDS instances (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora), DB clusters, multi-AZ deployments, parameter groups, subnet groups, security groups, and cross-stack references.

When to Use

  • Creating RDS instances (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora) or DB clusters with read replicas
  • Setting up multi-AZ deployments or configuring parameter/subnet groups
  • Integrating with Secrets Manager or implementing cross-stack references

Quick Reference

Component CloudFormation Type Use Case
DB Instance AWS::RDS::DBInstance Single database instance
DB Cluster AWS::RDS::DBCluster Aurora cluster
DB Subnet Group AWS::RDS::DBSubnetGroup VPC deployment
Parameter Group AWS::RDS::DBParameterGroup Database configuration
Security Group AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup Network access control
Secrets Manager AWS::SecretsManager::Secret Credential storage

Instructions

Step 1 — Define Database Parameters

Use AWS-specific parameter types for validation.

Parameters:
  DBInstanceClass:
    Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance::InstanceType
    Default: db.t3.micro
    AllowedValues: [db.t3.micro, db.t3.small, db.t3.medium]

  Engine:
    Type: String
    Default: mysql
    AllowedValues: [mysql, postgres, aurora-mysql, aurora-postgresql]

  MasterUsername:
    Type: String
    Default: admin
    AllowedPattern: "^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$"
    MinLength: 1
    MaxLength: 16

  MasterUserPassword:
    Type: String
    NoEcho: true
    MinLength: 8
    MaxLength: 41

See template-structure.md for advanced parameter patterns, mappings, conditions, and cross-stack references.

Step 2 — Create DB Subnet Group

Required for VPC deployment with subnets in different AZs.

DBSubnetGroup:
  Type: AWS::RDS::DBSubnetGroup
  Properties:
    DBSubnetGroupDescription: Subnet group for RDS
    SubnetIds:
      - !Ref PrivateSubnet1
      - !Ref PrivateSubnet2

Read the full file on GitHub · 349 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 349 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 3dd491a88a85

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aws-cloudformation-rds is a skill published in the GitHub repository giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit (343 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,795 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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