aws-startup-advisor

Entry point for AI-agent work on AWS: pick a runtime, plan a migration for existing workloads, and build an executable POC — one phased flow. Triggers on: which runtime for my agent, AgentCore vs ECS vs EKS vs Lambda, AgentCore vs Lambda MicroVMs, deploy an AI agent on AWS, agent architecture on AWS, I have an agent idea what do I build, move/migrate my agents to AWS, agent migration plan, add AgentCore services (memory, gateway, identity, policy, observability) to an agent already on AWS, Temporal on AWS (migrate/run Temporal workers on AWS, a service orchestrated by Temporal, Temporal Cloud vs self-hosted). Temporal Workflow code is never rewritten into Step Functions. Requires at least one agentic component — a purely non-agent system (plain services, batch jobs, HTTP endpoints, non-agent Temporal Activities) is out of scope, redirected to gcp-to-aws / heroku-to-aws / llm-to-bedrock. Not for: compute/data migration with no AI agent; pure LLM SDK rewrite (use llm-to-bedrock); per-model pricing.

Startup-tailored AWS architecture advice for non-agent workloads, adjusted to the company's stage (pre-revenue through Series B+), team size, runway, and credits. Not for AI agents: deploying an AI agent on AWS, picking its runtime, or any agentic architecture is agent-advisor. Use when a founder wants guidance or a recommendation rather than code changes: which services to choose, how to plan or review an architecture, how to stretch credits and control cost, or how to prepare architecture for a fundraise or technical diligence. For an interactive discovery flow that scaffolds and writes the architecture into the codebase, use start-building-for-startups. Do not use for: writing or scaffolding code, factual AWS Activate / programs / credits lookups (see knowledge-base-for-startups), a single copy-paste prompt (see prompt-library-for-startups), or migration intent such as GCP-to-AWS, Azure-to-AWS, or Heroku-to-AWS (see the migration skills: `gcp-to-aws`, `azure-to-aws`, `heroku-to-aws`, `llm-to-bedrock`).

Migrate workloads from Microsoft Azure to AWS. Triggers on: migrate from Azure, Azure to AWS, move off Azure, migrate AKS to EKS, migrate App Service or Azure VMs to AWS compute, migrate Azure SQL or Azure Database to RDS, migrate Cosmos DB to DynamoDB, migrate Azure OpenAI to Bedrock, move Azure AI or agentic workloads to AWS, estimate AWS costs for my Azure infrastructure, what-if workshop. Runs a 6-phase process: discover Azure resources from Terraform, the live `az` CLI, app code, and billing exports, then clarify, design, estimate costs, optionally reprice scenarios, generate artifacts, and collect feedback. Clarify gates Design, Estimate, and Generate; Generate is opt-in at the post-Estimate decision gate. Bicep/ARM discovery is not yet implemented; a Bicep/ARM-only workspace halts. Do not use for: GCP migrations (see gcp-to-aws), Heroku migrations (see heroku-to-aws), general AWS architecture advice (see architect-for-startups), AWS-to-Azure reverse migration, or Azure-to-Azure refactoring.

Surfaces a single, genuinely relevant AWS Activate partner offer as optional context AFTER another AWS Startup Advisor skill has finalized its recommendation, plan, or build — never influencing the technical advice. Consulted by architect-for-startups, start-building-for-startups, agent-advisor, gcp-to-aws, heroku-to-aws, and llm-to-bedrock: once their output is final, this skill checks whether a relevant Activate offer exists for what the founder is building or migrating and, if so, appends one quiet, dismissible line with a tracked redeem link. Merit-first (offers never change the recommendation), relevance-gated to what the founder actually surfaced, at most one per response and often none, muteable. Offer content is read live from the sibling knowledge-base-for-startups skill (references/offers.md). Do NOT use for account-specific lookups (credits balance, Activate membership, application status) — send those to https://aws.amazon.com/startups.

Migrate workloads from Google Cloud Platform to AWS — plus AI and agentic workloads from any provider. Triggers on: migrate from GCP, GCP to AWS, move off Google Cloud, migrate Terraform to AWS, migrate Cloud SQL to RDS, migrate GKE to EKS, migrate Cloud Run to Fargate, migrate App Engine to Elastic Beanstalk, migrate from OpenAI to Bedrock, move off OpenAI, switch from ChatGPT API to AWS, migrate from Gemini to Bedrock, migrate LangChain to Bedrock, migrate LangGraph to AWS, migrate agentic workloads to AWS, move AI workloads to AWS, migrate my AI app to AWS. Runs a 6-phase process: discover GCP resources from Terraform, app code, or billing exports, then clarify, design, estimate costs, generate artifacts, and collect feedback. Clarify must finish before Design, Estimate, or Generate. Do not use for: Azure migrations (see azure-to-aws), on-premises migrations, AWS-to-GCP reverse migration, general AWS architecture advice without migration intent, or GCP-to-GCP refactoring.

Migrate workloads from Heroku to AWS. Triggers on: migrate from Heroku, Heroku to AWS, move off Heroku, migrate Heroku Postgres to RDS, migrate Heroku Redis to ElastiCache, migrate Heroku Kafka to MSK, migrate dynos to Elastic Beanstalk, migrate dynos to Fargate, migrate Heroku Private Space, Heroku to ECS, leave Heroku, what-if workshop, compare migration scenarios, workshop mode. Runs a 6-phase process: discover Heroku resources live via the authenticated Heroku CLI (read-only, consent-gated) and/or from Terraform, Procfile/app.json, and billing exports, then clarify, design, estimate costs, generate artifacts, and collect feedback. Clarify must finish before Design, Estimate, or Generate. An optional post-Estimate what-if workshop reprices region/HA/compute/Graviton scenarios. Do not use for: GCP migrations (see gcp-to-aws), Azure migrations (see azure-to-aws), AWS-to-Heroku reverse migration, general AWS architecture advice without migration intent, or Heroku-to-Heroku refactoring.

AWS Startups reference content — Activate FAQ, credits guide, programs, partner offers, sample architectures, and hundreds of learn articles spanning generative AI, cloud architecture, cost optimization, security, fundraising, go-to-market, and real-world startup case studies. Use when the user asks factual questions about AWS Activate (eligibility, credits, programs, providers), wants a sample architecture or solution guide, or needs an AWS-curated learn article on a specific startup topic. For copy-paste AI prompts (RAG chatbot, MVP scaffold, security baseline, GPU quota, etc.), see the prompt-library-for-startups skill. Do not use for: account-specific lookups (credits balance, Activate membership status, application status), real-time event listings beyond the events stub, or content not present in the bundled `references/` tree.

Use when the user wants to migrate code that calls OpenAI, Gemini/Google AI, or the Anthropic API to Amazon Bedrock — a pure model/SDK rewrite. End-to-end: assesses the codebase, rewrites SDK calls, evaluates output quality against Bedrock, and delivers a ready-to-merge git branch. Also has an access-only mode for users who just want to check or enable Bedrock model access for specific models (e.g. 'request access to Claude on Bedrock', 'enable GPT models on Bedrock', 'which models do I turn on') with no code migration — it checks each model and walks the right access step (Marketplace/model access and IAM) for the named models, then stops. Not for agent runtime selection or agent migration planning (use agent-advisor), nor standalone cost estimates or infra-only migration. The full migration REQUIRES gcp-to-aws installed alongside this skill (Assess is delegated to it, no standalone fallback if absent); access-only mode does not need gcp-to-aws.

Operate a live AWS workload with AWS DevOps Agent — incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and release-readiness review — for startups with no dedicated DevOps or SRE engineer. Use when a live AWS workload is misbehaving (production is down, 5xx errors, latency spike, timeouts, it broke after the last deploy, an alarm fired, a pasted CloudWatch alarm or stack trace, find the root cause, write a postmortem, no one on call), for pre-merge review (is this PR safe to ship, blast radius), or to set up, pause, stop, or check the cost of AWS DevOps Agent. Detects existing setup first and never re-onboards. Cost, account access, and code egress are separate hard gates: nothing metered is connected before the user has seen the price and said yes. Do not use for: new architecture (architect-for-startups), scaffolding (start-building-for-startups), migrations (gcp-to-aws, azure-to-aws, heroku-to-aws, llm-to-bedrock), or general Activate and credits questions (knowledge-base-for-startups).

AWS-curated copy-paste prompts for AI coding agents (MVP scaffolding, RAG chatbot with Claude on Bedrock, security baseline evaluation, cost anomaly detection, GPU quota requests, EKS deployment, Well-Architected review, etc.) plus downloadable installable agents (Multi-Account Transition Advisor, Bill Shock Preventer, Service Quota Agent, Bedrock Model Availability Agent, AWS DB Advisor). Use when the user asks for a prompt to do X on AWS, wants an installable agent for multi-account / cost monitoring / quota management / Bedrock model availability / database selection, or asks how to use AWS prompts. For migration intent (GCP to AWS, Azure to AWS, OpenAI/Gemini to Bedrock), route to the migration skills in this plugin (`gcp-to-aws`, `azure-to-aws`, `heroku-to-aws`, `llm-to-bedrock`). Do not use for: factual AWS Activate / programs / credits questions, learn articles, sample architectures, or for prompts that are not in the bundled `references/prompt-library/` tree.

Interactive discovery + implementation workflow that gathers requirements through picker-based questions (intent, scope, constraints, preferences), scans the codebase for what it can already infer, then writes an AWS architectural scaffold and implementation directly into the project. Use when the user wants to build a new app, scaffold a project, or expand/refactor an existing one on AWS — anything that calls for a structured discovery flow followed by code changes, not a one-off lookup. Do not use for: factual lookups about AWS Activate / programs / credits, requests for a single copy-paste prompt, non-AWS architectural work, architecture advice/recommendations without code changes (see architect-for-startups), a new idea centered on an AI agent — runtime selection, agentic architecture, or an agent POC (see agent-advisor), or migrating an existing GCP/Azure/Heroku workload or an LLM SDK rewrite (see gcp-to-aws / azure-to-aws / heroku-to-aws / llm-to-bedrock).

Best-practice authoring guidance AND a read-only policy gate for AWS Terraform generated by a migration skill. Load during any phase that writes a terraform/ directory — first as the "what to emit" posture rules + security-baseline spec, then after writing as the deterministic policy verdict. Read-only: it reports whether the generated Terraform passes; it never edits .tf files, never touches .phase-status.json, and never decides phase completion. Complements (does not replace) terraform fmt/init/validate.