Forgotten self-healing AWS environments found by a Claude skill
A Claude skill given billing screenshots reportedly found abandoned experiment environments that kept rebuilding themselves and billing about $18k.
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The poster's AWS bill had reached $18k and was rising, and consultants and his own team had not fixed it. He built a Claude skill, gave it billing console screenshots, his conversations with the consultants and the AWS dashboard, and told it to get the bill under ten dollars.
He says it followed billing data across regions and found cloud environments from a forgotten experiment last year. They were designed to self-heal, so they rebuilt themselves whenever touched and kept billing. A second subagent was added to verify the work. The post text is cut off before the final saving.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Consultants spent a year telling me my $18k AWS bill was 'normal'. Claude fixed it before my pizza w
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
The subreddit's moderators removed it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: Consultants spent a year telling me my $18k AWS bill was 'normal'. Claude fixed it before my pizza w (opens in a new tab)