aws-samples/sample-claude-code-plugins-for-startups
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1Aws ArchitectThis skill acts as an AWS Solutions Architect for designing and reviewing AWS architectures following Well-Architected Framework principles. A developer uses it when planning new infrastructure, reviewing existing architectures, or evaluating trade-offs between AWS services. It runs a discovery-first process, evaluates against the six pillars, proposes specific services with configurations, and requires a security review pass.5installs2Aws DiagramThis skill generates AWS architecture diagrams in Mermaid or ASCII from a description, existing IaC, or conversation context. A developer uses it to visualize a system's request and data flow. It can reverse-engineer diagrams from IaC files and flags security concerns like public subnets and open security groups.4installs3Iac ScaffoldThis skill scaffolds new AWS infrastructure-as-code projects using CDK, Terraform, SAM or CloudFormation. It generates the project structure, an example resource, environment-specific config, a README and a CI/CD pipeline, following framework-specific patterns and gotchas. A developer uses it to start a new IaC project or add a stack.4installs4AgentcoreThis skill is specialist guidance for the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform, covering service selection, deployment, and production operations. A developer uses it to design an AgentCore architecture, configure Runtime, Memory, Gateway, Identity, and Policy, and plan agent observability and evaluations. It is framework-agnostic and model-agnostic and includes a PoC-to-production migration path.3installs5Api GatewayThis skill helps design and configure Amazon API Gateway APIs. A developer uses it to choose between REST and HTTP APIs, set up authorizers, configure throttling and usage plans, manage custom domains, or build WebSocket APIs. It gives an opinionated decision framework with cost and latency trade-offs plus AWS CLI examples and troubleshooting guidance.3installs6Aws CompareThis skill compares 2 to 3 AWS architecture options side-by-side to make trade-offs clear. A developer uses it when deciding between approaches, evaluating them across cost, complexity, performance, security, reliability, team fit, and vendor lock-in. It outputs a side-by-side table plus an opinionated recommendation tied to the user's constraints.3installs7Aws DebugThis skill is an AWS debugging specialist that systematically diagnoses and resolves AWS infrastructure issues, deployment failures, and runtime errors. A developer uses it when troubleshooting CloudFormation stack failures, Lambda errors, ECS task failures, permission issues, or networking problems. It follows a symptom-to-fix workflow with ready AWS CLI investigation commands and a gotchas list.3installs8Aws Health CheckThis skill runs a quick health check on an AWS account, covering security posture, cost waste, reliability gaps, and operational readiness. A developer uses it for a fast 5-minute scan rather than a full Well-Architected review. It runs concrete AWS CLI checks (GuardDuty, public S3, open security groups, public RDS, IMDSv2, unattached EBS) and produces a scored findings report.3installs9Aws PlanThis skill runs an end-to-end AWS architecture planning workflow covering discovery, design, security review, cost estimate, and SCP recommendations. A developer uses it when someone wants to build something on AWS or plan new infrastructure. It orchestrates the discover-design-review-estimate-deliver flow and outputs a structured plan with services, a diagram, cost estimate, and trade-offs.3installs10BedrockThis skill gives Claude Code specialist guidance for building on Amazon Bedrock. It covers picking a foundation model, designing Bedrock agents and knowledge bases, configuring guardrails, prompt engineering and estimating costs. A developer uses it when building RAG, agents or generative-AI features on AWS and wants a defensible model and architecture choice.3installs11ChallengerThis skill turns Claude Code into an adversarial reviewer that critiques another agent's output before the user acts on it. It challenges assumptions, looks for simpler alternatives, stress-tests failure modes, checks cost realism and returns a structured verdict. A developer uses it to validate an architecture, migration plan or cost estimate.3installs12CloudfrontThis skill helps Claude Code design, configure and troubleshoot Amazon CloudFront distributions. It covers origin types, cache and origin-request policies, CloudFront Functions versus Lambda@Edge, signed URLs, WAF integration and common CLI commands. A developer uses it when setting up a CDN or debugging cache behavior for a web app on AWS.3installs13Cost CheckThis skill turns Claude Code into an AWS cost-optimization specialist. It pulls cost data, identifies the top cost drivers and proposes optimizations ranked by savings versus effort, using a quick-wins checklist and gotchas on data transfer, Reserved Instances, Spot and Graviton. A developer uses it to cut an AWS bill or investigate unexpected charges.3installs14Customer IdeationThis skill acts as a senior AWS Solutions Architect that guides a customer from a vague idea to a concrete, well-architected AWS solution. It runs structured discovery, qualifies build vs migrate vs optimize, then selects services with decision trees and estimates cost. A developer uses it when starting a new AWS project and needs help choosing services.3installs15DynamodbThis skill gives Claude Code specialist guidance for Amazon DynamoDB table design and operations. It covers partition and sort key selection, single-table design, GSI/LSI trade-offs, capacity modes, Streams, TTL and DAX. A developer uses it when designing a DynamoDB schema, choosing keys or troubleshooting performance.3installs16Ec2This skill gives Claude Code EC2 specialist guidance for designing, configuring and optimizing compute workloads. It covers instance-type selection, launch templates, Auto Scaling Groups, Spot instances, storage and placement groups. A developer uses it when picking instance types, setting up auto-scaling or optimizing EC2 cost.3installs17EcsThis skill gives Claude Code ECS specialist guidance for deploying containers on AWS. It covers Fargate versus EC2 launch types, task definitions, awsvpc networking, ALB/NLB integration, auto-scaling and ECS Express Mode. A developer uses it when standing up an ECS service or choosing between Fargate and EC2.3installs18Ecs SociThis skill generates a complete ECS Fargate SOCI (Seekable OCI) example with Terraform to demonstrate lazy-loading container images for faster task startup. It produces a heavy PyTorch inference container with and without SOCI, plus build, push and comparison scripts. A developer uses it to speed up Fargate startup for large ML images.3installs19EksThis skill gives Claude Code EKS specialist guidance for designing, deploying and troubleshooting Kubernetes on AWS. It covers compute strategy, cluster networking and encryption, IRSA versus Pod Identity, EKS add-ons and autoscaling with Karpenter. A developer uses it when running Kubernetes on AWS or troubleshooting a cluster.3installs20IamThis skill gives Claude Code IAM specialist guidance for designing and reviewing AWS access controls. It covers policy-evaluation order, identity versus resource-based policies, roles and trust policies, least-privilege patterns, permission boundaries and Service Control Policies. A developer uses it when writing IAM policies, implementing least privilege or debugging permission issues.3installs21IotThis skill gives Claude specialist guidance for designing AWS IoT architectures. It covers IoT Core (MQTT, device shadows, rules engine), Greengrass v2 edge compute, fleet provisioning and security, and data storage patterns. A developer uses it when connecting devices to AWS, choosing protocols, or planning a device fleet.3installs22LambdaThis skill helps Claude design and optimize AWS Lambda functions. It covers runtime selection, cold-start reduction (SnapStart, provisioned concurrency, ARM64), Powertools, the concurrency model, and event-source-mapping patterns. A developer uses it when creating new functions or troubleshooting cold starts and event sources.3installs23MessagingThis skill gives Claude AWS messaging guidance for designing event-driven architectures with SQS, SNS, and EventBridge. It covers service selection, queue and topic configuration, fan-out patterns, dead-letter queues, and message filtering. A developer uses it when choosing between messaging services or debugging message delivery.3installs24Migration Apprunner To Ecs ExpressThis skill guides a controlled migration from AWS App Runner to Amazon ECS Express Mode, prompted by App Runner closing to new customers on April 30, 2026. It covers IAM setup, deployment, custom domains, DNS cutover, cost comparison, and troubleshooting. A developer uses it to move an existing App Runner service one at a time with read/write/destructive guardrails.3installs25Migration Azure To AwsThis skill provides Azure-to-AWS migration guidance with service mappings, gotchas, and assessment steps. It maps Azure services to AWS equivalents, flags hard cases like Azure AD, Cosmos DB, and Synapse, and gives az CLI assessment commands. A developer uses it when planning or executing a migration off Microsoft Azure.3installs26Migration Gcp To AwsThis skill provides GCP-to-AWS migration guidance with service mappings, gotchas, and assessment steps. It maps GCP services to AWS equivalents, flags hard cases like global-vs-regional VPCs and Cloud Spanner, and gives gcloud assessment commands. A developer uses it when planning or executing a migration off Google Cloud.3installs27MlopsThis skill gives Claude end-to-end MLOps guidance on AWS. It covers platform selection, training and inference instance choices, ML pipelines, experiment tracking, model monitoring, and cost optimization. A developer uses it to build an ML pipeline, deploy a model on SageMaker, or choose between SageMaker and Bedrock.3installs28NetworkingThis skill helps Claude design and troubleshoot AWS networking. It covers VPC subnet tiers, CIDR and AZ planning, security groups vs NACLs, VPC endpoints, Transit Gateway, VPC peering, Route 53, and NAT Gateways. A developer uses it when planning a VPC architecture or debugging connectivity issues.3installs29ObservabilityThis skill helps Claude design AWS observability solutions using CloudWatch and X-Ray. It covers metrics and alarm thresholds by service, log retention and structured logging, ready-made Logs Insights queries, alarms, anomaly detection, dashboards, and tracing. A developer uses it when configuring monitoring or debugging observability gaps.3installs30Rds AuroraThis skill gives Claude a deep dive into Amazon RDS and Aurora database design. It covers engine selection, instance sizing, high availability, read scaling, Aurora Serverless v2, security, and migration. A developer uses it when designing an RDS database, choosing between RDS and Aurora, or configuring failover and read replicas.3installs31S3This skill helps Claude configure Amazon S3 buckets, storage, and access control. It covers secure bucket defaults, storage classes, lifecycle policies for cost, an IAM-first access hierarchy with bucket-policy examples, and performance optimization. A developer uses it when designing S3 storage, tightening access, or optimizing cost and throughput.3installs32Security ReviewThis skill has Claude review AWS infrastructure code and configurations for security issues. It scans IaC (CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, SAM), runs checks against an IAM, networking, data, and logging checklist, and classifies findings by severity with remediation. A developer uses it when auditing IAM policies or hardening an AWS environment.3installs33Step FunctionsGuides an agent through designing AWS Step Functions state-machine workflows. It supplies a Standard vs Express decision table, opinionated Retry and Catch error handling, direct-service-integration guidance, and patterns for Saga, human approval, and Distributed Map. A developer uses it when orchestrating multi-step processes, saga transactions, or high-volume event pipelines on AWS.3installs34Strands AgentScaffolds and builds AI agents using the Strands Agents SDK deployed on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It clarifies language and agent purpose, sets up memory modes, wires in built-in OpenTelemetry tracing and Strands Evals, and deploys via the AgentCore CLI. A developer uses it to start a greenfield agent project in TypeScript or Python.3installs35Well ArchitectedConducts structured AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews of a workload against the six pillars and specialty lenses. It walks deep review questions, runs AWS CLI checks for signals like unencrypted S3 buckets or single-AZ RDS, identifies high-risk issues, and produces a prioritized improvement plan. A developer uses it to audit an existing AWS architecture for compliance or governance.3installs