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sample-apex-skills
Curated agentic AI skills for AWS platform engineering, delivered through any coding agent
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- 24 skills (24 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
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- 1d ago last update (Last updated 1d ago)
Install
Skills CLI
npx skills add aws-samples/sample-apex-skills
Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add aws-samples/sample-apex-skills --skill eks-cost-intelligence — add -g for every project.
Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-apex-skillscp -r "sample-apex-skills/devops-agent/eks-cost-intelligence" ~/.claude/skills/
Copies the eks-cost-intelligence skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.
Plugin
/plugin marketplace add aws-samples/sample-apex-skills
Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.
Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.
What it does
In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md — showing the first 24 of 37 files.
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eks-cost-intelligence
EKS cost efficiency assessment — 6-dimension analysis, weighted 0-100 Cost Score, and dollar-quantified remediation report. Analyzes compute efficiency, Spot/Graviton adoption, networking, storage, observability, and idle resources. Triggers on cost audit, cost review, cost driver analysis, FinOps assessment, spending efficiency, waste identification, over-provisioned workloads, or cost attributi…
devops-agent/eks-cost-intelligence/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
eks-ingress-migration
Assess a live EKS cluster's NGINX/Ingress estate and plan migration to Gateway API, the AWS Load Balancer Controller (ALB Ingress), or AWS Transform (ATX). Discovers ingress controllers and routes, scores migration difficulty 0–100 with a separate re-architecture gate, and generates per-cluster reports plus ready-to-apply manifests. Use when someone asks "how hard is it to move off nginx ingress?…
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eks-operation-review
Perform a structured EKS operational excellence assessment against a live cluster. Covers 10 areas: cluster lifecycle, infrastructure as code, access and identity, observability, workload configuration, networking, autoscaling, deployment practices, operational processes, and add-on management. Produces a GREEN/AMBER/RED rated report with prioritized recommendations. Activate for any request to a…
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eks-recon
EKS cluster reconnaissance and environment discovery — reports the raw FACTS of a cluster and its environment. Detects compute (Karpenter, MNG, Auto Mode, Fargate, nodes/AMI), networking (VPC/CNI, subnets, load balancers, DNS), security facts (auth mode, IRSA/Pod Identity, RBAC, encryption), add-ons/Helm, observability, workloads (Deployments, StatefulSets, PDBs, HPAs), storage (CSI, StorageClass…
devops-agent/eks-recon/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
eks-security
EKS security and compliance assessment — 7-layer hardening stack, CIS/HIPAA/PCI/FedRAMP/SOC2/GDPR audit prep, and 30/60/90 roadmap. Covers OS/AMI selection (Bottlerocket, AL2023, RHEL, Ubuntu), identity (EKS Pod Identity vs IRSA, Access Entries vs aws-auth), workload security (Pod Security Admission, Kyverno/OPA, NetworkPolicy, Security Groups for Pods), image supply chain (ECR scanning, Cosign/N…
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eks-upgrade-check
Assess EKS cluster upgrade readiness by running automated checks across 8 areas (version validation, breaking changes, deprecated APIs, add-on compatibility, node readiness, workload risks, AWS Upgrade Insights, upgrade plan), calculate a readiness score (0-100%), and generate a detailed report with remediation steps and pre-filled AWS CLI commands. Assessment-only - all checks are strictly read-…
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apex
APEX router for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS work. Use it first for any EKS, ECS or APEX skills request, even one that names a single skill or that another APEX skill's description also matches: once loaded, it decides the route. Reads the request and workspace, asks only what the route still needs, infers the customer's stage (Day 0 Design, Day 1 Build, Day 2 Operate), then loads the skill that fit…
skills/apex/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
dotnet-aws-ecs
Generates IaC (CloudFormation or CDK) and a deployment guide to deploy a .NET workload to Amazon ECS Fargate on Linux containers with an Application Load Balancer. Produces a VPC, ECS cluster, task definition, ALB, and auto-scaling. NOT for Windows containers, EC2 launch type, or Kubernetes/EKS deployments.
skills/dotnet-aws-ecs/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
ecs-architect
Use when choosing and architecting an Amazon ECS deployment model for a NEW workload — Fargate vs ECS on EC2 vs Managed Instances vs Express Mode vs ECS Anywhere/External — plus capacity-provider strategy, task sizing, awsvpc/ENI density, networking, service parameters, and launch-type or topology migration (EC2 launch type to capacity providers/Managed Instances; Service Discovery to Service Con…
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ecs-build
Use when building Amazon ECS infrastructure with Terraform, generating apply-ready code for ECS clusters, services, and task definitions across three capacity models — Fargate (FARGATE_SPOT as capacity provider), EC2 Auto Scaling group providers, and ECS Managed Instances. Covers rolling/blue-green/linear/canary deployment config, Express services, Service Connect, private/VPC-endpoint-only netwo…
skills/ecs-build/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
ecs-devops
Use when someone is deploying, releasing, or shipping software to Amazon ECS — phrased as "blue/green deployment on ECS", "canary deployment for my ECS service", "set up CI/CD for ECS", "GitHub Actions deploy to Fargate", "my ECS deployment is stuck", "ECS deployment circuit breaker", "ECS task sets", or "migrate off CodeDeploy blue/green". Covers strategy selection (rolling/blue-green/linear/can…
skills/ecs-devops/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
ecs-genai
Use whenever someone runs a GPU / ML / GenAI / LLM workload on Amazon ECS: GPU on ECS, ECS GPU-optimized AMI, g4dn/g5/g6/p4/p5 on ECS, which ECS launch type for GPU, Inferentia/Trainium/Neuron on ECS, distributed training, model inference or vLLM/Triton/TGI/Ray on ECS, Capacity Blocks, GPU sharing, ASG per GPU type. Covers GPU on ECS-on-EC2 and ECS Managed Instances (GPU AMIs, NVIDIA runtime, ins…
skills/ecs-genai/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
ecs-modernize
Assess an existing app (VMware/EC2) by source code analysis for the replatform vs rearchitect decision, and execute the approved migration onto Amazon ECS. Scope: assessment, strategy decision, migration execution. Covers: source code analysis; language/framework detection (Java, .NET, Spring, Struts, WebSphere tWAS/Liberty); cloud/container fit scoring; strategy recommendation; tWAS containeriza…
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ecs-observability
Advise on Amazon ECS observability architecture — select the logs/metrics/traces stack (CloudWatch, Container Insights, X-Ray, ADOT/OpenTelemetry, Managed Prometheus/Grafana, FireLens to third-party) by compliance needs, existing tooling, scale, budget, and launch types (EC2, Fargate, Managed Instances, ECS Anywhere). Use for "how should we monitor our ECS services", "Container Insights or Promet…
skills/ecs-observability/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
ecs-operation-review
Run a structured Amazon ECS operational-excellence assessment against a live estate (Fargate/EC2/Managed Instances/ECS Anywhere) and score it GREEN/AMBER/RED. Skip for EKS/Kubernetes (use eks-operation-review). Covers 8 domains — clusters & capacity, networking, task definitions, services & deployment safety (circuit breaker, blue/green, canary), service health & autoscaling (grace period, draini…
skills/ecs-operation-review/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
ecs-recon
ECS environment reconnaissance and discovery. Detects compute and capacity providers, task definitions, deployment configuration, auto scaling, networking, security posture, observability, and IaC/CI-CD tooling. Use when someone asks about their ECS environment, wants to describe a cluster, inspect a service, or document task definitions — even without naming the skill. Applies to Amazon ECS, not…
skills/ecs-recon/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
ecs-security
Security and compliance guidance for Amazon ECS — "ECS was unable to assume the role", task role vs execution role, iam:PassRole, confused-deputy aws:SourceArn trust, Fargate vs EC2 shared responsibility, injecting Secrets Manager/SSM secrets (trailing-colon JSON-key gotcha), readonlyRootFilesystem / non-root / drop capabilities, ECS Exec governance, security-group-per-task, VPC endpoint policies…
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eks-best-practices
Advisory guidance for Amazon EKS architecture and configuration — compute strategy, networking, security, reliability, cost, autoscaling, observability, multi-tenancy, upgrade planning, on-prem/hybrid (EKS Hybrid Nodes, EKS Anywhere, Outposts), and surge readiness for planned traffic peaks. Also answers terraform-aws-modules/terraform-aws-eks questions. Use for any EKS planning or architectural j…
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eks-build
Use when building EKS clusters. Generates complete, production-ready Terraform projects with optional ArgoCD GitOps integration. Handles environment-specific constraints: air-gapped/VPC-endpoint-only networks, enterprise proxies, private container registries, compliance requirements. Supports 3 patterns: full Terraform, ArgoCD+Terraform, ArgoCD+ACK/KRO. Includes validated modules, two-phase webho…
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eks-design
Use when designing EKS architecture. Generates design documents with Mermaid diagrams, ADRs, security architecture, and validation reports. Translates requirements into tailored EKS designs guided by Well-Architected best practices. Covers cluster architecture, compute, networking, security, addons, observability, cost, and upgrade strategy. Also use when reviewing or validating existing EKS arch…
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eks-genai
Use whenever someone is building, training, fine-tuning, or serving a generative AI / LLM workload on Amazon EKS — phrased as "GPU vs Trainium/Inferentia", "vLLM on EKS", "Ray Serve / KubeRay", "distributed training on EKS", "FSx for Lustre for ML", "Karpenter for GPU", "EFA / NCCL multi-node", "DCGM / Neuron Monitor", "LiteLLM / AI gateway", "RAG on EKS", "agentic AI on EKS", or "self-host Llama…
skills/eks-genai/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md -
eks-mcp-server
Install, configure, and troubleshoot the EKS MCP Server connection in your AI assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro). Use ONLY for MCP server setup problems — config file location (.mcp.json), IAM permissions for eks-mcp actions, uvx installation, choosing AWS-hosted vs self-hosted mode, or debugging why MCP tools fail to appear after config. Also activate if user mentions "eks mcp", "mcp server",…
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eks-platform-engineering
Use whenever someone is designing or building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or doing platform engineering on Amazon EKS — phrased as "build a developer platform", "self-service for developers", "golden paths", "IDP", or "set up Backstage / ArgoCD / Kargo". Covers the opinionated platform stack — developer portal (Backstage), GitOps delivery (ArgoCD, Argo Workflows), progressive delivery (A…
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eks-well-architected-review
Deterministic AWS Well-Architected Framework review of an Amazon EKS cluster (Linux nodes only). Unofficial — not the AWS Well-Architected Tool, no official EKS lens exists, and it maps to no compliance framework (CIS, PCI or otherwise). Collects live data via kubectl and aws, scores it across five of the six pillars (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Opt…
skills/eks-well-architected-review/ on GitHub (opens in a new tab)SKILL.md
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