Cloud Cost Estimator Skill
Estimates cloud costs for migration targets, provides resource sizing recommendations, and suggests cost optimization strategies.
Purpose
Enable cloud cost planning for:
- •Resource sizing recommendations
- •Cost projection
- •Reserved instance optimization
- •Spot instance eligibility
- •Cost comparison
Capabilities
1. Resource Sizing Recommendations
- •Right-size compute instances
- •Optimize storage allocation
- •Plan memory requirements
- •Size database instances
2. Cost Projection
- •Monthly cost estimates
- •Annual projections
- •Growth modeling
- •Budget forecasting
3. Reserved Instance Optimization
- •Identify RI candidates
- •Calculate savings
- •Plan commitment levels
- •Optimize coverage
4. Spot Instance Eligibility
- •Assess workload suitability
- •Estimate availability
- •Calculate savings
- •Plan fallback strategy
5. Cost Comparison (On-Prem vs Cloud)
- •Calculate current costs
- •Project cloud costs
- •Analyze TCO
- •Document savings
6. FinOps Recommendations
- •Identify waste
- •Suggest optimizations
- •Plan tagging strategy
- •Implement showback
Tool Integrations
| Tool | Cloud | Integration Method |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Pricing Calculator | AWS | Web/API |
| Azure TCO Calculator | Azure | Web/API |
| Google Cloud Pricing Calculator | GCP | Web/API |
| Infracost | Multi | CLI |
| CloudHealth | Multi | API |
| Spot.io | Multi | API |
Output Schema
json
{
"estimateId": "string",
"timestamp": "ISO8601",
"costs": {
"monthly": {
"compute": "number",
"storage": "number",
"network": "number",
"database": "number",
"total": "number"
},
"annual": "number"
},
"sizing": {
"instances": [],
"storage": [],
"databases": []
},
"optimizations": {
"reservedInstances": {},
"spotInstances": {},
"rightSizing": []
},
"comparison": {
"onPremises": "number",
"cloud": "number",
"savings": "number"
}
}
Integration with Migration Processes
- •cloud-migration: Cost planning
- •migration-planning-roadmap: Budget planning
Related Skills
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cloud-readiness-assessor: Migration planning
Related Agents
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cost-optimization-agent: Cost optimization - •
cloud-migration-engineer: Migration execution