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

Output Schema

{
  "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

• cloud-readiness-assessor: Migration planning

Related Agents

• cost-optimization-agent: Cost optimization
• cloud-migration-engineer: Migration execution