cost-optimization — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited cost-optimization (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.
Strategies and patterns for optimizing cloud costs across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Implement systematic cost optimization strategies to reduce cloud spending while maintaining performance and reliability.
Savings: 30-72% vs On-Demand
Term: 1 or 3 years
Payment: All/Partial/No upfront
Flexibility: Standard or ConvertibleCompute Savings Plans: 66% savings
EC2 Instance Savings Plans: 72% savings
Applies to: EC2, Fargate, Lambda
Flexible across: Instance families, regions, OSSavings: Up to 90% vs On-Demand
Best for: Batch jobs, CI/CD, stateless workloads
Risk: 2-minute interruption notice
Strategy: Mix with On-Demand for resilienceresource "aws_s3_bucket_lifecycle_configuration" "example" {
bucket = aws_s3_bucket.example.id
rule {
id = "transition-to-ia"
status = "Enabled"
transition {
days = 30
storage_class = "STANDARD_IA"
}
transition {
days = 90
storage_class = "GLACIER"
}
expiration {
days = 365
}
}
}locals {
common_tags = {
Environment = "production"
Project = "my-project"
CostCenter = "engineering"
Owner = "[email protected]"
ManagedBy = "terraform"
}
}
resource "aws_instance" "example" {
ami = "ami-12345678"
instance_type = "t3.medium"
tags = merge(
local.common_tags,
{
Name = "web-server"
}
)
}Reference: See references/tagging-standards.md
# AWS Budget
resource "aws_budgets_budget" "monthly" {
name = "monthly-budget"
budget_type = "COST"
limit_amount = "1000"
limit_unit = "USD"
time_period_start = "2024-01-01_00:00"
time_unit = "MONTHLY"
notification {
comparison_operator = "GREATER_THAN"
threshold = 80
threshold_type = "PERCENTAGE"
notification_type = "ACTUAL"
subscriber_email_addresses = ["[email protected]"]
}
}Development: t3.small RDS
Staging: t3.large RDS
Production: r6g.2xlarge RDS with read replicasHot data: S3 Standard
Warm data: S3 Standard-IA (30 days)
Cold data: S3 Glacier (90 days)
Archive: S3 Deep Archive (365 days)resource "aws_autoscaling_policy" "scale_up" {
name = "scale-up"
scaling_adjustment = 2
adjustment_type = "ChangeInCapacity"
cooldown = 300
autoscaling_group_name = aws_autoscaling_group.main.name
}
resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "cpu_high" {
alarm_name = "cpu-high"
comparison_operator = "GreaterThanThreshold"
evaluation_periods = "2"
metric_name = "CPUUtilization"
namespace = "AWS/EC2"
period = "60"
statistic = "Average"
threshold = "80"
alarm_actions = [aws_autoscaling_policy.scale_up.arn]
}terraform-module-library - For resource provisioningmulti-cloud-architecture - For cloud selection~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.