# Cloud cost audit (/cloud--cloud-cost-audit)

/cloud--cloud-cost-audit is a Claude Code skill in the Code section. Analyses billing exports and infrastructure code to find wasted spend and returns a prioritised savings plan with estimated monthly savings.

- Web version: https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/s/cloud--cloud-cost-audit
- Section: [Code](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/code.md)
- Author: Santiago Gómez de la Torre
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/blob/main/skills/cloud/cloud-cost-audit.md
- Updated 10 Jul 2026

## How to ask for it

- `/cloud--cloud-cost-audit review last month's AWS bill and find where to cut costs`
- `/cloud--cloud-cost-audit scan my Terraform for oversized, wasteful resources`
- `/cloud--cloud-cost-audit give me a savings plan to reduce my GCP spend`

## Install

macOS · Linux:

```
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.sh | bash
```

Windows:

```
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgomez-dev/claude-skills/main/install.ps1 | iex
```

Claude Code plugin:

```
/plugin marketplace add sgomez-dev/claude-skills
/plugin install cloud-skills@claude-skills-collection
```

## Permissions

- Reads: `**/*`
- Writes: `docs/cost-audit*.md`, `*.md`, `*.csv`
- Runs: `aws ce get-cost-and-usage *`, `aws * describe-*`, `aws * list-*`, `gcloud * list *`, `az consumption usage list *`, `az * list *`
- Network: No
- Destructive: No

## Author's description

Audit cloud costs from billing exports and IaC — find waste, rightsize, plan savings

- [How we review this](https://skills.sgomez.dev/en/methodology.md)