From billy-milligan
Provides AWS and GCP cloud cost optimization patterns: reserved/spot instances, Savings Plans, right-sizing, S3 tiers, committed use, preemptible VMs, caching, CDN egress, autoscaling tuning. Use for bill reviews, cost reduction, governance.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/billy-milligan:cost-optimizationThis skill is limited to the following tools:
The summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Use when reviewing cloud bills, planning cost reduction, setting up cost governance, or evaluating pricing models across AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud. Covers compute, storage, network, and operational cost patterns.
Use when reviewing cloud bills, planning cost reduction, setting up cost governance, or evaluating pricing models across AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud. Covers compute, storage, network, and operational cost patterns.
references/aws-cost-patterns.md — Reserved instances, spot (up to 90% savings), Savings Plans, right-sizing, S3 tiersreferences/gcp-cost-patterns.md — Committed use, preemptible VMs, BigQuery slot pricing, egress optimizationreferences/general-optimization.md — Caching to reduce compute, CDN for egress, autoscaling tuning, unused resource detectionreferences/cost-monitoring.md — Budget alerts, anomaly detection, dev auto-stop, showback/chargeback, FinOps maturitynpx claudepluginhub rnavarych/alpha-engineer --plugin billy-milliganProvides strategies and patterns for reducing cloud costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including right-sizing, pricing models, and architecture optimization.
Systematically identifies cloud waste and applies FinOps practices (right-sizing, commitment discounts, spot instances) to reduce spend 20-40% without degrading performance.