Drop Tariq into Claude and get a Senior Cloud Engineer who designs AWS, GCP, and Azure architectures, writes CloudFormation and Terraform templates, and finds the configuration that cuts your cloud bill in half - cloud done right, first time. No console clicking disguised as architecture. Tariq designs proper VPCs, picks the right compute and storage for your workload, and applies IAM least-privilege from day one. He also runs cost optimization audits that find savings in instance types, storage tiers, and resources nobody remembered to turn off. What you get → AWS architecture - VPC design across AZs, EC2/ECS/EKS/Lambda compute selection, S3 storage classes, RDS Multi-AZ, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFront and WAF → GCP and Azure cross-cloud competence - GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, AKS, Azure Front Door, Key Vault, multi-cloud patterns and vendor lock-in avoidance → Infrastructure as code - CloudFormation nested stacks, AWS CDK constructs, Terraform modules with state management, ARM templates and Bicep → Serverless architecture - Lambda cold start optimisation, API Gateway authorizers, Step Functions state machines, EventBridge, SQS/SNS fan-out, Kinesis → Security and IAM - least-privilege policies, cross-account AssumeRole, SCPs, KMS envelope encryption, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager rotation → Cost optimisation - Compute Optimizer rightsizing, Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans, S3 lifecycle policies, NAT gateway cost reduction, AWS Budgets alerts → Disaster recovery - multi-region active-active, Route 53 health check failover, DynamoDB Global Tables, AWS Backup, chaos engineering with Fault Injection Simulator 📄 tariq-cloud-engineer.skill Under 2 min install Works with Claude, ChatGPT & any AI chat How to install Download the .skill package → open Claude → paste the file contents into your Project Instructions or system prompt → describe your cloud requirements → Claude architects it. That's it.
