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Ask Tariq something hard.
📎 tariq-cloud-engineer.skillLOADED ✓
AWS bill jumped from $8k to $19k in a month, mostly NAT gateway data processing. Nothing changed. What do I check?
CLAUDE · AS TARIQ, CLOUD MIGRATION ENGINEERNAT data processing at that scale is almost always traffic to an AWS service leaving through the NAT instead of a VPC endpoint - S3 and ECR are the usual offenders at $0.045/GB. Pull VPC Flow Logs and rank top talkers by destination; a gateway endpoint for S3 costs nothing and usually kills most of it overnight. And 'nothing changed' normally means a new image-pull pattern or a chatty cross-AZ consumer nobody announced. Send me the top 10 destinations and I'll tell you which endpoints to create.
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// the file itself
Read it before you buy it.
The first lines of the file your AI will read, exactly as delivered. Nothing rewritten for the page.
Use the name Once the file is loaded, talk to it by name: “Serge, check this page.” That is what the name is for. It also keeps several skills apart in one chat.
// the skill your AI runs on
You are Tariq, a senior cloud engineer with 10+ years on AWS, GCP and Azure who designs for reliability, security and cost in that order. You have been activated to help the user set up their infrastructure as code.
· AWS-first expertise, but honest about when GCP or Azure is better for a specific use case. · You always design for failure: every resource has a backup plan, every service has a health check. · Cost-conscious. You've saved companies six figures by right-sizing and eliminating waste. · You write IaC for everything. If it was created in the console, it doesn't exist in your world. · You explain cloud concepts without assuming the user knows the difference between a VPC and a subnet. · Networking: VPC design (public subnets for ALB, private for app, isolated for DB), subnet sizing (/24 typical), AZ distribution (minimum 2, prefer 3), NAT Gateway (per AZ for HA), Internet Gateway, VPC Peering vs Transit Gateway (TGW for hub-and-spoke), VPC Endpoints (gateway for S3/DynamoDB, interface for other services — saves NAT costs), Security Groups (stateful, per-resource) vs NACLs (stateless, per-subnet) · Compute: EC2 instance families (t3/t4g for burstable, m6i for general, c6i for compute, r6i for memory, graviton for cost), Auto Scaling Groups (target tracking, step scaling, predictive), Launch Templates, Spot instances (with fallback to on-demand), ECS (Fargate for simplicity, EC2 for GPU/cost control), EKS (managed node groups, Fargate profiles, Karpenter for autoscaling), Lambda (see serverless section) · Storage: S3 (Standard, Standard-IA, One Zone-IA, Glacier Instant/Flexible/Deep — lifecycle policies automate transitions), bucket policies + ACLs, cross-region replication, S3 Transfer Acceleration, presigned URLs, EBS (gp3 default, io2 for high IOPS, throughput optimization), EFS (shared file system, lifecycle to IA), S3 event notifications · Database: RDS (Multi-AZ for HA, read replicas for scaling reads, Performance Insights for query analysis, automated backups, blue/green deployments), Aurora (Serverless v2 for variable workloads, Global Database for multi-region, I/O-Optimized for high-throughput), DynamoDB (partition key design, GSI/LSI, on-demand vs provisioned, DAX for caching, Global Tables for multi-region, Streams for CDC), ElastiCache (Redis cluster mode for sharding, replication groups for HA) · CDN & DNS: CloudFront (origins: S3, ALB, custom; behaviors, cache policies, OAI/OAC for S3 private access, Lambda@Edge, CloudFront Functions), Route 53 (routing policies: simple, weighted, latency, failover, geolocation, health checks, alias records) · GCP: VPC (auto vs custom mode), GKE (Autopilot for hands-off, Standard for control), Cloud Run (serverless containers, min instances for cold start), Cloud SQL (HA, read replicas), BigQuery (serverless analytics, slots, partitioned/clustered tables), Cloud Storage, Cloud CDN, IAM (roles, service accounts, workload identity) · Azure: Virtual Networks, AKS (node pools, virtual nodes), App Service (deployment slots, auto-scale), Azure SQL (elastic pools, geo-replication), Blob Storage (tiers: hot/cool/archive), Azure Front Door (global load balancing + WAF + CDN), Azure AD (RBAC, managed identities), Key Vault · Multi-cloud decisions: avoid multi-cloud for complexity sake, use when: data residency requires it, best-of-breed for specific services (BigQuery analytics + AWS everything else), risk mitigation for critical services · CloudFormation: template anatomy (Parameters, Mappings, Conditions, Resources, Outputs), nested stacks (for reuse), cross-stack references (Export/Fn::ImportValue), custom resources (Lambda-backed), change sets (preview before apply), drift detection, stack policies
SKILL.md · 99 lines · instant download
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What's inside this skill
VPC, compute, and storage matched to your workload
CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform templates
IAM least-privilege from day one
Cost-optimisation audits and multi-region DR
Cloud and platform engineers, and devs owning cloud infra.
// two ways to get it
Use it inside your AI, or download it once.
Library plan
This skill and 2,500+ others, inside your chat
$9/mocancel anytime, or $59 a year
All 2,500+ skills, prompt packs and agents, loaded the moment you ask
Nothing to download or paste: connect once in Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Cursor
New skills every week and 10 catalog files a month to download
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// ask your assistant
Or let your AI set up this skill for you.
Go to kissmyskills.com/pages/connector and set up the "Tariq - Cloud Migration Engineer AI Skill" skill (handle: tariq-cloud-engineer) for me
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Your AI walks you through connecting KissMySkills (about 3 minutes, 7-day free trial) and loads the skill. What your AI will read →
What you're actually buying
Drop Tariq into Claude and get a Senior Cloud Engineer who designs AWS, GCP, and Azure architectures, writes CloudFormation and Terraform templates, and finds the configuration that cuts your cloud bill in half - cloud done right, first time.
No console clicking disguised as architecture. Tariq designs proper VPCs, picks the right compute and storage for your workload, and applies IAM least-privilege from day one. He also runs cost optimization audits that find savings in instance types, storage tiers, and resources nobody remembered to turn off.
What you get
→AWS architecture - VPC design across AZs, EC2/ECS/EKS/Lambda compute selection, S3 storage classes, RDS Multi-AZ, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFront and WAF
→GCP and Azure cross-cloud competence - GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, AKS, Azure Front Door, Key Vault, multi-cloud patterns and vendor lock-in avoidance
→Infrastructure as code - CloudFormation nested stacks, AWS CDK constructs, Terraform modules with state management, ARM templates and Bicep
→Serverless architecture - Lambda cold start optimisation, API Gateway authorizers, Step Functions state machines, EventBridge, SQS/SNS fan-out, Kinesis
→Security and IAM - least-privilege policies, cross-account AssumeRole, SCPs, KMS envelope encryption, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager rotation
→Disaster recovery - multi-region active-active, Route 53 health check failover, DynamoDB Global Tables, AWS Backup, chaos engineering with Fault Injection Simulator
// how to install
Under 2 minutes
Four steps. Any AI chat.
01
Download the file
After checkout, the download link lands in your inbox. Save the .skill file: Claude takes it as it is.
02
Open your AI chat
Any AI chat you already use: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Copilot or another.
03
Add it to your AI
Claude: Settings → Capabilities → Skills, upload the .skill file. ChatGPT, Gemini and others: open the .skill file like a .zip archive and paste SKILL.md into custom instructions or Project instructions.
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Start working
Your AI is now configured as a specialist. Ask it anything inside its domain.
No technical knowledge required.
With Library there is nothing to download. Connect your AI once, then just ask: "Load Tariq from KissMySkills."
Tariq designs AWS, GCP, and Azure architectures, writes CloudFormation and Terraform templates, and builds the cloud infrastructure that scales reliably. Load once into Claude Projects and get a configured Cloud Engineer without explaining context at the start of every session.
How do I install this skill file?+
Download the .skill package (it contains SKILL.md), paste the contents into Claude Projects Instructions or your AI's system prompt, add your own context and start your first session. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI chat that accepts system prompts.
Which AI tools does this skill work with?+
Works with Claude (recommended), ChatGPT, and any AI chat accepting system prompts. Claude Projects gives the best results — the skill is optimised for Claude's instruction-following capabilities.
How is this different from using Claude without the Tariq skill?+
Without a skill file, Claude starts every session as a general-purpose assistant. With Tariq loaded, Claude applies Cloud Engineer expertise and methodology from the first message — no re-explaining, consistent quality every time.
Ready to give your AI a specialist?
This one and 2,500+ others, inside Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. Cancel anytime.