Billing and Cost Management

Overview

Analyze, optimize, and manage AWS costs. This skill encodes domain expertise from AWS's cost management products — gotchas, correct API usage patterns, and optimization workflows that models frequently get wrong.

Usage

Use this skill when:

• Analyzing AWS spending, cost trends, or cost breakdowns
• Setting up or managing budget alerts
• Evaluating Savings Plans or Reserved Instance purchases
• Right-sizing EC2, Lambda, RDS, or EBS resources
• Looking up AWS service pricing
• Running cost audits or investigating cost spikes
• Querying CUR data with Athena
• Scoping cost analysis to a specific billing view
• Checking Free Tier usage