cloud-cost-optimization SKILL.md skillA
cloud-cost-optimization from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/cloud-cost-optimization@git:20260720.3c9eba4Pins git:20260720.3c9eba4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/cloud/cloud-cost-optimization/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.3c9eba4, committed Jul 20, 2026
- Size
- 2,793 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Cut cloud spend with tagging, rightsizing, commitment mix, and egress awareness, without breaking reliability. Use when the cloud bill needs reducing or a cost-review practice needs standing up.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Cloud cost optimization You cannot cut what you cannot attribute. Visibility first, then the big three levers: rightsizing, commitments, and storage lifecycle; everything else is decoration until those are done. ## Method 1. **Attribute before optimizing.** Enforce tags (team, service, env) at provision time via IaC policy, not wiki pleading; untagged resources get a weekly report and an owner hunt. Turn on the billing export to a queryable store; the console's month view hides the per-service trends you need. 2. **Rightsize from utilization, not fear.** Pull 30 days of p95 CPU/memory per instance; anything under ~40% at p95 drops a size (halving cost per step). Do the same for provisioned IOPS, over-replicated dev databases, and idle load balancers. Schedule non-prod to sleep nights and weekends: 70% of the week is off-hours. 3. **Buy commitments for the floor, spot for the burst.** Cover the stable baseline (12 months of history says what that is) with savings plans/reserved capacity at 60-70% coverage; leave headroom on-demand. Fault-tolerant batch and CI go on spot at 60-90% off, …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/cloud-cost-optimization@sha256:9e1fd3e682ea5f4aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.3c9eba4, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 20, 2026.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qz4ctqse7ltmj4rs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/cloud-cost-optimization GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9e1fd3e682ea5f4a8cddc17cee82a1cf1f9e04a90877e010626e74aa430fd4ab
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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