# Jeremylongshore Claude Code Plugins Plus Skills Cloud Cost Optimizer > Overview - Skill: `tomevault-io/jeremylongshore-claude-code-plugins-plus-skills-cloud-cost-o` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tomevault-io/jeremylongshore-claude-code-plugins-plus-skills-cloud-cost-o` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tomevault-io/jeremylongshore-claude-code-plugins-plus-skills-cloud-cost-o/raw - Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS) - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: DevOps & Infra - Author: tomevault-io (https://skillmd.com/u/tomevault-io) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tomevault-io/jeremylongshore-claude-code-plugins-plus-skills-cloud-cost-o --- ## Overview This skill empowers Claude to be a FinOps expert, helping users identify and implement strategies to minimize their cloud expenditures. By analyzing current resource utilization and suggesting optimized configurations, it ensures efficient cloud spending. ## How It Works 1. **Analyzing Cost Data**: Claude analyzes the user's request to identify the scope and cloud provider (if specified). 2. **Generating Optimization Recommendations**: Claude formulates specific recommendations to reduce costs, such as rightsizing instances, identifying unused resources, or leveraging reserved instances. 3. **Creating Cost Report**: Claude generates a detailed cost report summarizing current spending and potential savings. ## When to Use This Skill This skill activates when you need to: - Reduce your AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud spending. - Generate a report detailing current cloud costs. - Identify underutilized or unused cloud resources. ## Examples ### Example 1: Reducing AWS EC2 Costs User request: "Optimize my AWS EC2 costs. I'm running several t3.medium instances." The skill will: 1. Analyze the usage patterns of the t3.medium instances. 2. Suggest rightsizing to t3.small or using reserved instances if utilization is consistently high. 3. Generate a cost report showing potential savings from the recommended changes. ### Example 2: Identifying Idle Azure Resources User request: "Generate a report of idle resources in my Azure subscription." The skill will: 1. Identify any virtual machines, storage accounts, or other resources that have been idle for a specified period. 2. Recommend terminating or deallocating the idle resources. 3. Provide a cost report detailing the savings achieved by removing the idle resources. ## Best Practices - **Resource Utilization**: Regularly review resource utilization metrics to identify opportunities for rightsizing. - **Reserved Instances**: Leverage reserved instances or committed use discounts for consistently used resources. - **Cost Monitoring**: Implement continuous cost monitoring and alerting to track spending trends and identify anomalies. ## Integration This skill can be used in conjunction with other DevOps plugins to automate the implementation of cost optimization recommendations. For example, it can integrate with infrastructure-as-code tools to automatically resize instances or terminate unused resources. --- > Converted and distributed by [TomeVault](https://tomevault.io/claim/jeremylongshore) — claim your Tome and manage your conversions.