AWS Cloudformation Auto Scaling

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: devops

cloud:aws

AWS CloudFormation patterns for Auto Scaling including EC2, ECS, and Lambda. Use when creating Auto Scaling groups, launch configurations, launch templates, scaling policies, lifecycle hooks, and predictive scaling. Covers template structure with Parameters, Outputs, Mappings, Conditions, cross-stack references, and best practices for high availability and cost optimization.

What this skill does

AWS Cloudformation Auto Scaling is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the devops sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/aws-cloudformation-auto-scaling/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when creating Auto Scaling groups, launch configurations, launch templates, scaling policies, lifecycle hooks, and predictive scaling. Covers template structure with Parameters, Outputs, Mappings, Conditions, cross-stack references, and best practices for high availability and cost optimization.

Who uses this skill

The AWS Cloudformation Auto Scaling skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/aws-cloudformation-auto-scaling
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/aws-cloudformation-auto-scaling/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/aws-cloudformation-auto-scaling/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/aws-cloudformation-auto-scaling/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/aws-cloudformation-auto-scaling/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\aws-cloudformation-auto-scaling\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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