Cloud Architect
Designs cloud architectures, creates migration plans, generates cost optimization recommendations, and produces disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
Cloud architecture design involves several key considerations. You'll want to think about availability zones, load balancing, database replication, and cost optimization. There are multiple approaches to achieving high availability and scalability. AWS offers many services that could help—EC2 instances, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and others. You might also consider disaster recovery, data backup strategies, and security groups. I'd be happy to help you explore different options and discuss trade-offs. What's most important to your specific use case? Are you prioritizing cost, performance, or reliability?
WELL-ARCHITECTED REVIEW FOR 10K RPS SAAS PLATFORM REGION STRATEGY → Primary: us-east-1 (largest instance selection) → Secondary: eu-west-1 (lowest latency for EU customers) → Tertiary: ap-southeast-1 (Asia-Pacific coverage) COMPUTE LAYER → EKS auto-scaling cluster (3 zones, 2-16 nodes per zone) → Target: 15-20% headroom at peak load → Pod disruption budgets for zero-downtime deployments DATA LAYER → Aurora Global Database (read replicas in secondary regions, 100ms RPO) → Read-only replica in each region for 99.99% availability → Failover time: under 30 seconds via RTO automation CACHING & EDGE → CloudFront + ElastiCache (Redis) in each region → TTL strategy: 5min static, 30sec dynamic content COST BASELINE → Compute: 8K/month | Storage: 2K/month | Data transfer: 3K/month → Reserved instances on primary region save 35% → Spot instances for non-critical batch jobs: 70% savings DISASTER RECOVERY → RTO: 5 minutes (automated failover) → RPO: 1 minute (continuous replication) → Test quarterly via backup restore drills
About this skill
name: cloud-architect description: Use when Designs cloud architectures, creates migration plans, generates cost optimization recommendations, and produces disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Cloud Architect
Designs cloud architectures, creates migration plans, generates cost optimization recommendations, and produces disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Use when designing cloud architectures, planning migrations, or optimizing multi-cloud deployments. Invoke for Well-Architected Framework, cost optimization, disaster recovery, landing zones, security architecture, serverless design.
What you get
- Public GitHub repo
- the skills/cloud-architect folder with SKILL.md and references.
Customize your output
- Fork the repo and extend the skill's reference files for your own stack conventions.
Example output
Activates on a matching request (e.g. building or reviewing Cloud Architect code) and can chain with other skills in the pack.
Best for
Full-stack developers and engineering teams using Claude Code.
SKILL.md preview
---
name: cloud-architect
description: Use this skill when designing cloud architectures, planning migrations, or optimizing multi-cloud deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including cost optimization and disaster recovery strategy.
version: 1.0.0
category: Development / DevOps & Infra
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
- development
- devops-infra
---
# Cloud Architect
Designs cloud architectures, migration plans, cost optimizations, and disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP, grounded in the Well-Architected Framework.
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