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SkillsMP has collected 33 skills from aws-samples/sample-apex-skills. Open a skill to review its source and details.
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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),…
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…
Use whenever someone needs security or compliance guidance for Amazon EKS — phrased as "CIS Benchmark for EKS", "HIPAA / PCI-DSS / FedRAMP / SOC 2 / GDPR on EKS", "harden my EKS cluster", "Bottlerocket vs AL2023 vs RHEL/Ubuntu AMI", "EKS Pod Identity vs…
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,…
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,…
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",…
Advisory guidance for Amazon EKS architecture and configuration decisions — compute strategy, networking, security, reliability, cost, autoscaling, observability, multi-tenancy, upgrade planning, on-prem/hybrid (EKS Hybrid Nodes, EKS Anywhere, Outposts), and…
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,…
Run a structured EKS operational excellence assessment against a live cluster. Covers 10 areas — networking, autoscaling, observability, access & identity, add-ons, workload config, deployments, cluster lifecycle, IaC, operational processes — and produces a…
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…
Assess EKS cluster upgrade readiness — run automated checks across 8 areas (version, breaking changes, deprecated APIs, add-on compatibility, node readiness, workload risks, AWS Insights, upgrade plan), calculate a 0-100 readiness score with a hard-blocker…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
Run a live EKS cluster cost efficiency assessment — analyze spending across 6 dimensions (compute efficiency, Spot/Graviton adoption, networking, storage, observability, idle resources), calculate a weighted 0-100 Cost Score, and generate a prioritized report…
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…
Execute a workload migration from x86 (amd64) to AWS Graviton (arm64) — set up the Arm migration MCP server for code, dependency, and container arm64-readiness scanning, then run the migration — pre-migration scanning, Karpenter arm64 node cutover, and…
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,…
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…
Author a new steering workflow for any AWS service and pair it with a matching slash-command shim. Use when the user asks to create a steering workflow, add a workflow to apex, standardize steering, write a new workflow for EKS / RDS / Lambda / IAM / any AWS…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
Audit and update every documentation surface in the APEX repo against the current state of skills, steering workflows, README marker tables, and the Docusaurus site under misc/website/. After any change to a skill (rename, retire, add, edit description), walk…
Use when writing, reviewing, or debugging Terraform/OpenTofu modules, tests, CI, scans, or state ops - diagnoses failure mode (identity churn, secrets, blast radius, CI drift, state corruption) with version-aware guards.
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…
EKS cluster reconnaissance and environment discovery. Detects compute strategy, IaC tooling, CI/CD pipelines, add-on inventory, networking, security posture, and observability.
EKS cluster reconnaissance and environment discovery. Detects compute strategy, IaC tooling, CI/CD pipelines, add-on inventory, networking, security posture, and observability.
RDS architecture best practices for production workloads. Covers Multi-AZ, read replicas, parameter groups, backup strategy, and security configuration.