cloud-architecture

cloud-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from sethdford/claude-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (677 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to designing cloud infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. Cloud infrastructure is the rented computing, storage, networking, and managed services used to run applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design or review compute, storage, databases, networks, monitoring, redundancy across availability zones, and cloud migrations.
Why use it?
It helps match workloads and constraints to cloud services while planning scaling, security, resilience, observability, compliance, and cost.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the infrastructure-design plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design or review compute, storage, databases, networks, monitoring, redundancy across availability zones, and cloud migrations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sethdford/claude-skills/cloud-architecture
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 sethdford/claude-skills --skill cloud-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sethdford/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install infrastructure-design, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 677 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.
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 $0.00037 $0.00677
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00338
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00135
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00068

Measured 9d ago against content hash 2cd47380c173, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cloud-architecture 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.

architect/infrastructure-design/skills/cloud-architecture/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cloud Architecture

Design scalable, cost-effective, secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Context

You are designing cloud infrastructure. Select services, plan scaling, networking, security, and cost. Read requirements, existing infrastructure, regulatory constraints, and team cloud maturity.

Domain Context

Based on cloud architecture best practices (AWS Well-Architected Framework, Google Cloud Architecture Framework):

  • Compute: Servers (EC2/Compute Engine), containers (ECS/GKE), functions (Lambda/Cloud Functions), management burden increases
  • Storage: Object storage (S3), databases (RDS/Cloud SQL), data warehouses (Redshift/BigQuery)
  • Networking: VPC isolation, subnets, security groups, load balancing, DNS
  • Observability: Metrics, logs, traces; CloudWatch, Stackdriver, DataDog
  • Compliance: Shared responsibility; you manage application, cloud owns infrastructure

Instructions

  1. Select Core Services: What workloads? Web app → App Engine/Elastic Beanstalk. Data processing → Spark on Kubernetes. Database → RDS PostgreSQL. Data warehouse → BigQuery.

  2. Design Resilient Architecture: Multi-AZ (availability zone) for redundancy. Health checks and auto-recovery. Load balancing across instances. Plan RPO/RTO requirements.

  3. Plan Networking: VPC with public and private subnets. Bastion for private access. Security groups restrict traffic. NAT Gateway for outbound access. CloudFlare or WAF for DDoS.

  4. Implement Security: IAM roles (principle of least privilege). Encrypt data at rest (KMS) and in transit (TLS). Secrets management (Secrets Manager/Vault). Regular patching.

  5. Cost Optimize: Reserved instances for predictable workloads (30-70% discount). Spot instances for batch/non-critical (70% discount). Right-size instances; monitor utilization. Use managed services to reduce operational overhead.

Anti-Patterns

  • Lift-and-Shift Without Optimization: Move VMs to cloud as-is. Result: expensive, not cloud-native. Guard: Rearchitect for cloud; use managed services where appropriate.
  • Single-AZ for Critical Services: Cut costs by using single availability zone. Result: outage when AZ fails. Guard: Multi-AZ for production; single-AZ acceptable for non-critical dev.
  • Ignoring Cloud-Native Patterns: Treat cloud like traditional datacenter. Result: underutilize auto-scaling, caching, global distribution. Guard: Design for elasticity; use services like CDN, auto-scaling groups.
  • No Cost Monitoring: Assume cloud is cheaper than on-prem. Result: bill shock. Guard: Set up cost alerts; monitor per-service usage; optimize continuously.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 9d ago First seen · 48 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 2cd47380c173

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cloud-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository sethdford/claude-skills (40 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 677 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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