aws-finops-report

What This Skill Does

The aws-finops-report skill acts as your automated senior FinOps analyst, designed to translate complex AWS billing data into actionable, executive-ready insights. Instead of manually parsing Cost Explorer CSVs or navigating the AWS Billing dashboard, this skill automates the entire reporting pipeline. It parses total expenditure, calculates month-over-month (MoM) deltas, performs per-team budget variance analysis, and generates a service-level heatmap. Most importantly, it bridges the gap between engineering and finance by providing two distinct narrative tones: one for technical teams focusing on optimization tasks, and one for CFOs focusing on cost governance and realization.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/anmolnagpal/finops-report

Use Cases

• Monthly Budget Review: Automatically prepare the monthly deck for stakeholders by identifying which departments exceeded their budgets by more than 20%.
• Cost Optimization Sprints: Generate a prioritized list of savings opportunities for engineering teams to tackle, categorized by effort levels (Low, Med, High).
• Executive Reporting: Produce high-level summaries for the board including YTD savings and budget forecasts based on current consumption trends.
• Anomaly Detection: Identify spikes in specific services to address unoptimized architecture before they hit the final bill.

Example Prompts

1. "Generate the AWS FinOps monthly report for October 2023, focusing on the engineering team's recent spike in RDS costs."
2. "Create a savings opportunities report based on current usage, prioritizing high-impact actions for the DevOps team."
3. "Provide a summarized financial update for the board using our latest AWS billing data, highlighting YTD savings and current month vs last month performance."

Tips & Limitations

• Standardization: This skill adheres to the FinOps FOCUS 1.2 standard. Ensure your AWS tags are consistent across accounts for the most accurate team-level breakdown.
• Data Privacy: Ensure the skill has the necessary read-only permissions to your AWS Cost Explorer or Billing APIs.
• Scope: While the skill provides detailed recommendations, final implementation of infrastructure changes should always be validated in a staging environment prior to deployment. The report serves as a diagnostic tool rather than an automated patch mechanism.