aws-billing-and-cost-management
aws billing and cost management
What it does
- Analyzing AWS spending, cost trends, or cost breakdowns
- Setting up or managing budget alerts
- Evaluating Savings Plans or Reserved Instance purchases
- Right-sizing EC2, Lambda, RDS, or EBS resources
- Looking up AWS service pricing
- Running cost audits or investigating cost spikes
- Querying CUR data with Athena
Requirements & configuration
- Compute Optimizer requires opt-in first: aws compute-optimizer update-enrollment-status --status Active. Then read references/ec2-rightsizing.md for EC2 or the relevant resource-specific reference.
- Requires billing:ListBillingViews permission.
- | Budgets API fails outside us-east-1 | Budgets requires us-east-1 | Set --region us-east-1 |
- | AccessDeniedException on list-billing-views | Missing permission | User needs billing:ListBillingViews permissions |
Configuration: CHARGE_TYPERECORD_TYPEUNHEALTHY
Derived from the skill's own SKILL.md documentation · extracted 2026-07-23
aws-billing-and-cost-management FAQ
What does the aws-billing-and-cost-management skill do?
| 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. Analyzing AWS spending, cost trends, or cost breakdowns Setting up or managing budget alerts
What does aws-billing-and-cost-management require?
Compute Optimizer requires opt-in first: aws compute-optimizer update-enrollment-status --status Active. Then read references/ec2-rightsizing.md for EC2 or the relevant resource-specific reference. Requires billing:ListBillingViews permission. | Budgets API fails outside us-east-1 | Budgets requires us-east-1 | Set --region us-east-1 | | AccessDeniedException on list-billing-views | Missing permission | User needs billing:ListBillingViews permissions | Configuration keys: CHARGE_TYPE, RECORD_TYPE, UNHEALTHY.
How do I install aws-billing-and-cost-management?
Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-billing-and-cost-management --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws.
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