cloud-pricing

What This Skill Does

The cloud-pricing skill empowers OpenClaw users with comprehensive, real-time 2025 financial data regarding the major cloud service providers: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This tool acts as an expert financial consultant, allowing you to bypass dense, confusing vendor pricing pages. It encompasses compute resources (EC2, VMs, Compute Engine), serverless architectures (Lambda, Functions), and diverse storage tiers. Whether you are performing a cloud migration, evaluating monthly operational expenses, or comparing the efficiency of reserved instances versus on-demand billing, this skill provides the structured data needed to make informed infrastructure decisions.

Installation

To integrate this expert knowledge into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/anton-abyzov/sw-cloud-pricing

Use Cases

This skill is indispensable for DevOps engineers, CTOs, and financial analysts. Use it to:

• Calculate monthly operational costs for a standard 3-tier web architecture across different clouds.
• Compare long-term savings by analyzing 1-year vs 3-year Reserved Instance pricing.
• Optimize storage budgets by identifying the cost-benefit ratio of AWS S3 Glacier vs. Azure Archive storage.
• Plan serverless function budgets by calculating request-based billing against expected traffic.
• Determine the most cost-effective region for deploying a new compute-optimized workload.

Example Prompts

1. "How much would it cost to run a standard medium-sized EC2 instance in AWS compared to a B2s in Azure for a month, assuming 730 hours of usage?"
2. "I'm expecting 5 million hits on my serverless API this month. What is the estimated price difference between AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions?"
3. "Which storage tier should I use for a 2TB data archive that I only need to access once every six months to minimize costs?"

Tips & Limitations

To get the most accurate estimates, always specify your region and expected utilization hours. Note that while this skill reflects 2025 pricing data, cloud providers frequently update egress fees and regional surcharges. Use this data as a high-fidelity estimation tool rather than a final billing forecast. Always cross-check specific complex networking or edge computing scenarios with the provider's official pricing calculator before final budget approval.