cost-optimization-specialist

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps teams detect unexpected cloud charges, identify the primary cost drivers across GCP, AWS, and Render, and deliver actionable recommendations to reduce ongoing infrastructure spending while preventing future budget overruns.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Cost analysis: Provides commands and queries for exporting and querying billing data (BigQuery, AWS Cost Explorer) and reviewing Render invoices to surface top services and anomalies.
• Optimization actions: Recommends rightsizing, autoscaling and concurrency settings, reserved/committed use, spot/preemptible instance strategies, and storage lifecycle policies to lower costs.
• Operational playbook: Includes a monthly review checklist, cost alert and budget setup, storage cleanup and CDN guidance, and concrete examples for reducing spend in dev/staging environments.
• Use case: Diagnose a sudden monthly cost spike, find idle databases and over-provisioned compute, then implement rightsizing, lifecycle rules, and budget alerts to lower the next bill.

Quick Start

Export your cloud billing data and ask for a prioritized list of top cost drivers with suggested rightsizing and alerting actions.