aws-billing-and-cost-management
An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: analytics, cloud, cost-optimization, performance, spreadsheets.
What it does
Analyze AWS costs, find savings, manage budgets, evaluate Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, right-size EC2/Lambda/RDS/EBS with Compute Optimizer, look up service pricing, query CUR with Athena, detect cost anomalies, scope costs to billing views, and monitor Free Tier usage. Triggers on: AWS bill, cost analysis, reduce spend, savings plan, reserved instance, right-size, budget alert, cost optimization, pricing, free tier, cost anomaly, CUR, cost audit, billing view, billing view ARN.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management
Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
cp -r agent-toolkit-for-aws/plugins/aws-core/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management ~/.claude/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management
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Source
- Repository
- aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- plugins/aws-core/skills/aws-billing-and-cost-management/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Collection
- aws-core
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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