Cloud Cost Estimator

This skill adds financial awareness to infrastructure design by estimating costs for AWS, Azure, and GCP resources.

Capabilities

1. Cost Projection

• Parses .tf files to identify resource types and counts.
• Provides estimated monthly costs based on standard pricing models.

2. Efficiency Recommendations

• Suggests cost-saving alternatives (e.g., "Use Spot instances for this worker group").
• Identifies "expensive" architectural choices.
• Validates if the projected infrastructure cost is within the typical range (e.g., 5-8% of ARR for SaaS) defined in IT Cost Benchmarks.

Usage

• "How much will this Terraform configuration cost per month on AWS?"
• "Compare the estimated cost of this multi-region setup vs a single-region setup."

Knowledge Protocol

• This skill adheres to the knowledge/orchestration/knowledge-protocol.md. It automatically integrates Public, Confidential (Company/Client), and Personal knowledge tiers, prioritizing the most specific secrets while ensuring no leaks to public outputs.
• References IT Cost Benchmarks for infrastructure spending standards relative to company size.