AWS with AI AI Prompts
42 free, production-ready AWS with AI AI prompts — copy-paste ready for ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor. Every prompt ships with fill-in placeholders, a worked example, and production-safety notes, so you get a usable answer on the first try.
- AWS with AI Advanced
AWS Athena and Glue Query Cost Optimization Prompt
Cut Amazon Athena data-scanned cost and speed up queries by partitioning, converting to columnar formats, compacting small files, and fixing Glue Data Catalog table design without changing query semantics.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
AWS CloudTrail Lake Threat-Hunting Investigation Prompt
Investigate suspicious AWS activity with CloudTrail Lake SQL — build queries to trace a compromised credential, unusual API calls, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration across accounts and time.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
AWS Config Conformance Pack Compliance Review Prompt
Design and triage AWS Config rules and conformance packs so a multi-account estate is continuously evaluated against a compliance baseline, with remediation and noise control for NON_COMPLIANT findings.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
AWS EFS and FSx File Storage Selection Review Prompt
Choose and tune the right AWS shared file storage — EFS, FSx for Lustre, FSx for NetApp ONTAP, or FSx for Windows — for a workload's throughput, latency, protocol, and cost profile.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
Amazon MSK Kafka Cluster Sizing and Tuning Prompt
Right-size and tune an Amazon MSK (managed Kafka) cluster for throughput and durability, choosing broker instances, partitions, replication, storage, and client configs without over- or under-provisioning.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
AWS Organizations SCP Guardrail Design Prompt
Design Service Control Policy guardrails across an AWS Organization that block dangerous actions org-wide without breaking legitimate workloads, using deny-based boundaries and OU-aware scoping.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
AWS PrivateLink and VPC Endpoint Design Prompt
Design VPC endpoint connectivity (Gateway, Interface/PrivateLink) so workloads reach AWS services and partner APIs privately, cutting NAT data-transfer cost and keeping traffic off the public internet.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instance Commitment Planning Prompt
Plan AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instance commitments from real usage — decide term, payment option, and coverage across Compute/EC2 SP, RDS/ElastiCache/Redshift RIs, to maximize savings without over-committing.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
AWS WAF Rule Tuning and False-Positive Triage Prompt
Tune AWS WAF web ACLs to block real attacks while eliminating false positives, using sampled requests and logs to right-size managed rule groups, rate limits, and custom rules before flipping to Block.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
ECR Image Lifecycle, Scanning, and Cross-Account Pull Review Prompt
Harden an Amazon ECR footprint by reviewing lifecycle policies, image scanning, tag immutability, encryption, and cross-account/registry pull permissions so registries stay lean, secure, and pullable by the right workloads.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
ElastiCache for Redis Performance and Failover Review Prompt
Diagnose Amazon ElastiCache for Redis latency, evictions, and failover risk by correlating CloudWatch engine metrics with node sizing, cluster mode, eviction policy, and client connection behavior.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
NAT Gateway and Data Transfer Cost Optimization Prompt
Cut AWS networking spend by tracing NAT Gateway processing charges and inter-AZ/inter-region data transfer to their source workloads, then redesign routing with VPC endpoints, AZ-affinity, and endpoint placement.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
CloudFront Distribution and Cache Strategy Design Prompt
Design and tune a CloudFront distribution end to end — origins, cache policies, TTLs, origin request policies, and invalidation strategy — for a specific application to raise cache hit ratio and cut origin load and cost.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
SSM Patch Management and Session Manager Review Prompt
Review and harden an AWS Systems Manager setup — patch baselines, patch groups, maintenance windows, and Session Manager access — to keep EC2 fleets compliant and remove SSH/bastion exposure.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
Transit Gateway Multi-Account Network Design Prompt
Design a scalable, segmented multi-VPC / multi-account network on AWS Transit Gateway — route tables, attachments, propagation, and inspection — with clear isolation between environments and shared services.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
ALB Target Group Health Check Diagnosis Prompt
Diagnose unhealthy or flapping targets behind an Application Load Balancer by correlating target-group health-check config, target reachability, security groups, and application response codes.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
Auto Scaling Group Scaling Policy Review Prompt
Review an EC2 Auto Scaling Group's scaling policies, health checks, and capacity settings to fix slow reactions, thrashing, or under/over-provisioning during traffic swings.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
AWS Backup & DR RPO/RTO Resilience Review Prompt
Review AWS Backup plans, cross-region/account copies, and recovery procedures against stated RPO/RTO targets to find gaps that would block or slow a real recovery.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
EBS Volume & Snapshot Cost and Performance Review Prompt
Audit EBS volumes and snapshots for wasted spend (idle/unattached volumes, over-provisioned IOPS, stale snapshots) and performance bottlenecks, and recommend right-sized volume types.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
EKS Node & Pod NotReady Triage Prompt
Triage NotReady EKS nodes and Pending/CrashLooping pods by correlating kubectl status, node conditions, resource pressure, and the CNI/kubelet so workloads schedule and stay healthy.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
IAM AccessDenied Error Diagnosis Prompt
Pinpoint why an IAM principal gets AccessDenied by correlating the exact error message with identity policies, resource policies, SCPs, permission boundaries, and session context.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
Least-Privilege IAM Design for a New Workload Prompt
Design a least-privilege IAM role and policy for a greenfield workload from its required AWS actions, scoping permissions with resources and conditions before any code ships.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
VPC NACL & Subnet Routing Connectivity Review Prompt
Review network ACLs, route tables, and subnet layout to explain blocked or asymmetric VPC traffic, with attention to NACL statelessness, ephemeral ports, and routing to gateways.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
S3 Bucket Security & Public Access Audit Prompt
Audit an S3 bucket's security posture end to end: public access blocks, bucket policy, ACLs, encryption, versioning, logging, and TLS enforcement, and rank exposure risks.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
API Gateway Design and Debug Prompt
Choose between REST and HTTP API, design authorizers and throttling, and trace integration timeouts, CORS failures, and 5xx errors back to the exact stage that produced them.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
AWS DynamoDB Single-Table Data Modeling Review Prompt
Review a DynamoDB schema against its real access patterns — partition/sort key choices, GSIs, item collections, and single-table design — before it ships and becomes expensive to change.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
EventBridge Rules and Pipes Design and Debug Prompt
Design event patterns, targets, and DLQs for EventBridge rules and Pipes, then trace why events fail to match, deliver, or get filtered.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
GuardDuty and Security Hub Finding Triage Prompt
Prioritize GuardDuty and Security Hub findings by real risk, suppress predictable noise with scoped rules, and map each finding to a concrete response so the security queue stays signal, not alert fatigue.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
KMS and Secrets Manager Rotation Review Prompt
Audit KMS key policies, grants, and envelope encryption alongside Secrets Manager automatic rotation so secrets rotate safely without locking out the workloads or operators that depend on them.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
Route 53 Routing Policy and Health Check Design Prompt
Design failover, latency, weighted, and geolocation routing with health checks, then debug why DNS resolves to the wrong or unhealthy endpoint.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
AWS S3 Lifecycle and Storage Class Optimization Prompt
Design S3 storage-class transitions, lifecycle rules, and Intelligent-Tiering so you cut storage cost without breaking retrieval SLAs, retention requirements, or paying more in transition and request fees than you save.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
SQS and SNS Messaging Patterns and Triage Prompt
Design fan-out, FIFO, and DLQ topologies with SNS and SQS, then diagnose stuck, duplicated, out-of-order, or lost messages.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
AWS Step Functions Execution Debugging Prompt
Diagnose a failed or stuck Step Functions execution — retries, Catch handlers, IAM denials, timeouts, and payload-size limits — from the execution history, then fix the state machine without masking the real error.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
CloudWatch Logs Insights and Alarm Design Prompt
Write precise CloudWatch Logs Insights queries to find the signal in noisy logs, then design alarms that page on real problems without flapping.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
AWS Cost Optimization and Anomaly Triage Prompt
Triage a cost spike or rightsize a bill using Cost Explorer, CUR, and utilization data, then sequence Savings Plans, rightsizing, and cleanup with confidence.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
ECS Fargate Task Failure Diagnosis Prompt
Read ECS task stopped reasons, exit codes, and events to pinpoint why a Fargate task won't start, keeps restarting, or fails its health checks.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
EKS IRSA and Networking Troubleshooting Prompt
Diagnose why EKS pods cannot assume IAM roles, pull images, get IPs, or reach AWS APIs by tracing IRSA, the VPC CNI, and the OIDC trust chain.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
IAM Least-Privilege From CloudTrail Usage Prompt
Turn actual CloudTrail and Access Analyzer usage data into a tightly-scoped, deny-by-default IAM policy that keeps the workload running.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
Lambda Cold-Start and Timeout Debug Prompt
Diagnose Lambda cold starts, init-phase latency, and timeouts using duration metrics and init logs, then propose targeted memory, packaging, and concurrency fixes.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Advanced
RDS Aurora Slow Query and Parameter Tuning Prompt
Use Performance Insights, slow-query logs, and EXPLAIN output to find the dominant wait and propose index, query, and parameter-group changes for RDS or Aurora.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
Security Group and ALB/NLB Connectivity Triage Prompt
Trace why traffic fails through a security-group chain or a load balancer by walking client to listener to target group to target-SG and reading health checks.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Cursor
Open prompt - AWS with AI Intermediate
VPC Connectivity Design and Debug Prompt
Design subnets, route tables, and NACLs for a sound VPC topology, then methodically trace why two resources cannot reach each other.
- Claude
- ChatGPT
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About these AWS with AI AI prompts
This is a free, curated collection of AWS with AI AI prompts for DevOps and platform engineers — prompt templates that turn Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor into a focused AWS with AI assistant. Instead of re-explaining your setup every time, each prompt has fill-in placeholders, a realistic worked example, and explicit safety and back-out notes, so it's safe to use against production AWS with AI.
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