Aws Cloud Ops

What it does

This skill provides guidance and assistance for deploying and managing AWS cloud infrastructure using the AWS CLI v2. It enables AI agents to perform common AWS operations, such as listing resources, copying files to S3 buckets, invoking Lambda functions, retrieving CloudWatch metrics, and managing EC2 instances. The skill offers significant context savings compared to directly interacting with an AWS MCP server and progressively discloses tools based on service category.

When to use it

• When you need to list the contents of an S3 bucket or synchronize a local directory with one in S3.
• To invoke a Lambda function and retrieve its output.
• For retrieving CloudWatch metrics, describing alarms, or creating new alarms.
• When managing EC2 instances – starting, stopping, or terminating them.
• During DevOps workflows involving AWS resources where assistance is needed with CLI commands.

Key capabilities

• AWS CLI v2 Integration: Leverages the AWS Command Line Interface version 2 for executing commands.
• S3 Operations: Listing buckets and objects (aws s3 ls), copying files (aws s3 cp), synchronizing directories (aws s3 sync), and deleting objects (aws s3 rm).
• Lambda Function Management: Listing functions (aws lambda list-functions), invoking functions (aws lambda invoke), and retrieving function details (aws lambda get-function).
• CloudWatch Monitoring: Listing metrics (aws cloudwatch list-metrics), getting metric statistics (aws cloudwatch get-metric-statistics), describing alarms (aws cloudwatch describe-alarms), and creating alarms (aws cloudwatch put-metric-alarm).
• EC2 Instance Management: Describing instances (aws ec2 describe-instances), starting, stopping, and terminating instances.
• Identity Verification: Allows verification of the current IAM user identity (aws sts get-caller-identity) and listing configured profiles (aws configure list-profiles).

Example prompts

• "List all S3 buckets."
• "Copy this local file to my S3 bucket named 'my-bucket'."
• "Invoke the Lambda function named 'my-function' and show me the output."
• "Create a CloudWatch alarm that triggers when CPU utilization exceeds 80%."

Tips & gotchas

• Prerequisites: The AWS CLI v2 must be installed, configured with valid credentials (using aws configure), and the AWS_REGION environment variable must be set.
• Confirmation Required: Certain operations like copying (s3-cp), synchronizing (s3-sync), and deleting (s3-rm) require confirmation before execution. Alarm creation (alarm-create) also requires confirmation.
• Best Practices: Using --output json and --query with AWS CLI commands is recommended to limit the size of response data. Always use IAM roles instead of long-lived access keys for enhanced security.