Cloud Architect

by Jeffallan

Cloud Architect is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by Jeffallan in claude-skills.

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Install Cloud Architect

Copy Cloud Architect into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills/tree/main/skills/cloud-architect ~/.claude/skills/cloud-architect

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/cloud-architect/SKILL.md in Jeffallan/claude-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cloud-architect
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Cloud Architect does

Cloud Architect designs cloud architectures, creates migration plans, generates cost optimization recommendations, and produces disaster recovery strategies across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Use when designing cloud architectures, planning migrations, or optimizing multi-cloud deployments.

Cloud Architect is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Cloud Architect comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude, claude-code, claude-marketplace and claude-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Cloud Architect

Core Workflow

Discovery — Assess current state, requirements, constraints, compliance needs
Design — Select services, design topology, plan data architecture
Security — Implement zero-trust, identity federation, encryption
Cost Model — Right-size resources, reserved capacity, auto-scaling
Migration — Apply 6Rs framework, define waves, validate connectivity before cutover
Operate — Set up monitoring, automation, continuous optimization

Workflow Validation Checkpoints

After Design: Confirm every component has a redundancy strategy and no single points of failure exist in the topology.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Cloud Architect

What else does Jeffallan publish alongside Cloud Architect?
Cloud Architect is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Jeffallan/claude-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include .NET Core Expert, API Designer and Angular Architect. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cloud Architect does, and is maintained by Jeffallan in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Jeffallan/claude-skills page.
How does Cloud Architect compare to other DevOps skills?
Cloud Architect ranks #100 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Cloud Architect against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.