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AWS Security

Category: Security  ·  Sub-category: cloud-security  ·  Last updated:
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AWS security service suitability, coverage and cost recommendations: WAF/origin overlap, AWS Network Firewall inspection coverage and policy review, VPC endpoint, Transit Gateway/Cloud WAN segmentation and DNS Firewall security-control suitability, certificate renewal ownership and monitoring, incident response triage ownership, centralized security log store (CloudWatch or Security Lake). Also factual configuration, findings, data sources and severity scoring for GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub V2/OCSF (Exposure, connectors, automation), Security Hub CSPM/ASFF (standards, controls), Macie, Detective, Security Lake, AWS Security Incident Response membership and case coverage, and Organizations security policies. Applies to advisory security-service choices even when one service is named. Implementation, rule or code authoring, deployment, scans and troubleshooting outside these factual procedures belong to specialist skills. Supports local AWS CLI and AWS MCP.
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From the source SKILL.md

Use this skill with local AWS CLI or AWS MCP. AWS MCP is recommended for sandboxed execution and audit logging.

What this skill does

AWS Security is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the cloud-security sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/aws-security/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The AWS Security Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 211,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

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

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

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

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📱 Install from your phone or desktop Telegram

Open @claudskills_bot on Telegram, tap Open Desktop App, and the desktop app installs this skill for you. Or share the bot link with a colleague — they get the same one-tap install. Learn more →

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.

Pro

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the AWS Security Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/aws-security/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the AWS Security skill do?
AWS security service suitability, coverage and cost recommendations: WAF/origin overlap, AWS Network Firewall inspection coverage and policy review, VPC endpoint, Transit Gateway/Cloud WAN segmentation and DNS Firewall security-control suitability, certificate renewal ownership and monitoring, incident response triage ownership, centralized security log store (CloudWatch or Security Lake). Also factual configuration, findings, data sources and severity scoring for GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub V2/OCSF (Exposure, connectors, automation), Security Hub CSPM/ASFF (standards, controls), Macie, Detective, Security Lake, AWS Security Incident Response membership and case coverage, and Organizations security policies. Applies to advisory security-service choices even when one service is named. Implementation, rule or code authoring, deployment, scans and troubleshooting outside these factual procedures belong to specialist skills. Supports local AWS CLI and AWS MCP.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the AWS Security skill?
Use AWS Security when your Claude Code task falls under the Security category — specifically in the cloud security area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use AWS Security" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/security/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the AWS Security skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. AWS Security is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA
aws. (2026). AWS Security [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/aws-security/
BibTeX
@misc{aws-security-2026,
  author    = {aws},
  title     = {AWS Security [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/aws-security/}
}

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