aws-cost-anomaly-triage — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited aws-cost-anomaly-triage (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
This skill encodes the internal SOP our FinOps team uses when an AWS cost anomaly is raised. Apply it whenever you see a cost spike alert, an unfamiliar line item on the bill, or a customer-reported overage.
resources/thresholds.mdFollow these steps in order. Do not skip ahead even if the cause seems obvious — early steps surface confounding factors that shape later recommendations.
GetCostAndUsage grouped by SERVICE over the past 30 days at daily granularity.
account, or tag dimension. Always confirm the anomaly persists when you remove plausible confounders (RI/SP amortization, credits, refunds — see resources/confounders.md).
monitoring rather than active triage.
Match against the patterns in resources/anomaly-patterns.md. The common ones in order of frequency:
Use service-specific dashboards listed in resources/per-service-drilldown.md. Always check:
Run* / Create* API spikes around theanomaly start time
daily isn't enough
Map the classified cause to one of the responses in resources/remediation-playbook.md. Never propose:
the security team's written sign-off
Write up findings using the template in resources/postmortem-template.md. File it in the FinOps tracker even if cause was benign — the patterns compound across incidents.
recommendations — those are starting points, not conclusions.
aws-savings-plan-modeling skill for those.
~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.