--- title: "aws-startup-advisor" description: "Personalized AWS guidance built on patterns from 350,000+ startups, architecture, cost, security, and migration, from day-one account setup to production-ready infrastructure. Migrate to AWS from GCP or Heroku, including" canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/aws-startup-advisor last-updated: 2026-09-26 --- # aws-startup-advisor Personalized AWS guidance built on patterns from 350,000+ startups, architecture, cost, security, and migration, from day-one account setup to production-ready infrastructure. Migrate to AWS from GCP or Heroku, including your entire AI stack: OpenAI/Gemini/Anthropic SDK rewrites to Amazon Bedrock, agentic systems (LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen) to AWS-native runtimes, and Temporal workers. Includes AWS Activate credits eligibility and 60+ exclusive startup offers. Built by AWS Startup Solutions Architects, with multi-account, multi-region support. - Slug: aws-startup-advisor - Publisher: Amazon Web Services - Repository: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws - Manifest: plugins/aws-startup-advisor/plugin.json - Version: 2.0.1 - License: Apache-2.0 - Category (editorial): other - Skills: 11 (agent-advisor, architect-for-startups, azure-to-aws, contextual-offers-for-startups, gcp-to-aws, heroku-to-aws, knowledge-base-for-startups, llm-to-bedrock, prompt-library-for-startups, start-building-for-startups, tf-best-practices) - MCP servers: 1 (aws-mcp) - Stars: 2726 - Repository created: 2026-04-23 - Repository last pushed: 2026-09-26 - Publisher type: Organization - Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/aws-startup-advisor - Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json ## What aws-startup-advisor does, in the publisher's words This plugin brings AWS Startups expertise directly into your coding assistant. Its skills encode the patterns AWS Startup Solutions Architects use with founders every day, stage-aware architecture advice, credit-conscious cost planning, and phased migrations onto AWS, so your agent gives startup-appropriate answers instead of enterprise-sized ones. Currently, skills are provided to assist with the following capability areas: - Startup Architecture Advice: Recommend and review AWS architectures against a company's stage (pre-revenue through Series B+), team size, runway, and available credits, including preparing an architecture for a fundraise or technical diligence. - Guided Building: Run an interactive discovery flow (intent, scope, constraints, preferences), scan what the codebase already implies, then write an AWS architectural scaffold and implementation into the project. - AI Agent Runtimes: Choose a runtime for an agentic workload (Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Lambda), plan a migration for agents already running elsewhere, and build an executable proof of concept. From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/HEAD/plugins/aws-startup-advisor/README.md ## Skills - agent-advisor: Entry point for AI-agent work on AWS: pick a runtime, plan a migration for existing workloads, and build an executable POC, one phased flow. Triggers on: which runtime for my agent, AgentCore vs ECS vs EKS vs Lambda, AgentCore vs Lambda MicroVMs, deploy an AI agent on AWS, agent architecture on AWS… - architect-for-startups: Startup-tailored AWS architecture advice that adjusts recommendations to the company's stage (pre-revenue through Series B+), team size, runway, and available credits. Use when a founder wants guidance or a recommendation rather than code changes: which services to choose, how to plan or review an… - azure-to-aws: Migrate workloads from Microsoft Azure to AWS. Triggers on: migrate from Azure, Azure to AWS, move off Azure, migrate AKS to EKS, migrate App Service or Azure VMs to AWS compute, migrate Azure SQL or Azure Database to RDS, migrate Cosmos DB to DynamoDB, migrate Azure OpenAI to Bedrock, move Azure A… - contextual-offers-for-startups: Surfaces a single, genuinely relevant AWS Activate partner offer as optional context AFTER another AWS Startup Advisor skill has finalized its recommendation, plan, or build, never influencing the technical advice. Consulted by architect-for-startups, start-building-for-startups, agent-advisor, gcp… - gcp-to-aws: Migrate workloads from Google Cloud Platform to AWS, plus AI and agentic workloads from any provider. Triggers on: migrate from GCP, GCP to AWS, move off Google Cloud, migrate Terraform to AWS, migrate Cloud SQL to RDS, migrate GKE to EKS, migrate Cloud Run to Fargate, migrate App Engine to Elastic… - heroku-to-aws: Migrate workloads from Heroku to AWS. Triggers on: migrate from Heroku, Heroku to AWS, move off Heroku, migrate Heroku Postgres to RDS, migrate Heroku Redis to ElastiCache, migrate Heroku Kafka to MSK, migrate dynos to Elastic Beanstalk, migrate dynos to Fargate, migrate Heroku Private Space, Herok… - knowledge-base-for-startups: AWS Startups reference content: Activate FAQ, credits guide, programs, partner offers, sample architectures, and hundreds of learn articles spanning generative AI, cloud architecture, cost optimization, security, fundraising, go-to-market, and real-world startup case studies. Use when the user asks… - llm-to-bedrock: Use when the user wants to migrate code that calls OpenAI, Gemini/Google AI, or the Anthropic API to Amazon Bedrock, a pure model/SDK rewrite. End-to-end: assesses the codebase, then rewrites SDK calls, evaluates output quality against Bedrock, and delivers a ready-to-merge git branch. Not for: age… - prompt-library-for-startups: AWS-curated copy-paste prompts for AI coding agents (MVP scaffolding, RAG chatbot with Claude on Bedrock, security baseline evaluation, cost anomaly detection, GPU quota requests, EKS deployment, Well-Architected review, etc.) plus downloadable installable agents (Multi-Account Transition Advisor,… - start-building-for-startups: Interactive discovery + implementation workflow that gathers requirements through picker-based questions (intent, scope, constraints, preferences), scans the codebase for what it can already infer, then writes an AWS architectural scaffold and implementation directly into the project. Use when the… - tf-best-practices: Best-practice authoring guidance AND a read-only policy gate for AWS Terraform generated by a migration skill. Load during any phase that writes a terraform/ directory, first as the "what to emit" posture rules + security-baseline spec, then after writing as the deterministic policy verdict. Read-o… Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized. ## MCP servers - aws-mcp: transport: stdio; command: uvx mcp-proxy-for-aws-cli@latest https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp --skip-auth --metadata INSTALL_SOURCE=agent-toolkit-startup-advisor Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.