aws-billing-and-cost-management

Understand your AWS bill and find practical savings.

cloud cost management

What it does

Analyzes AWS costs, identifies savings, manages budgets, and provides optimization workflows and correct API usage patterns.

When to use it

Use for AWS spending analysis, budget alerts, commitment evaluation, resource right-sizing, pricing, audits, billing views, or Free Tier checks.

Give it an AWS cost-management request; it returns analysis, savings recommendations, or guidance for managing costs and budgets.

This skill

Cost Explorer

Write

Incurs Cost Explorer API charges (irreversible)

AWS Budgets

Write

Creates budgets and alerts

AWS IAM policies and SCPs

Write

Applies threshold-triggered deny policies

Compute Optimizer

Write

Enables Compute Optimizer

Requires access to the AWS account whose billing, usage, resources, and recommendations are being analyzed or managed.

Optionally provides sandboxed execution, audit logging, and enterprise controls.