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📁 File & System Utils

alibabacloud-waf-billing-backupv0.0.1

Name: alibabacloud-waf-billing-backup
Author: sdk-team

alibabacloud-waf-billing-backup

sdk-team

Query and back up Alibaba Cloud WAF 3.0 billing data. Use this Skill when a user asks to check WAF bills, export WAF cost details, back up WAF billing data locally, or analyze daily/hourly SeCU and Credit usage. The Skill retrieves instance information, daily bill summaries, and hourly cost breakdowns (function fees, traffic processing fees, Credit usage) via aliyun-cli, then exports the results as JSON and CSV files to the local workspace.

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Install & Quick Start

Install via ClawdBot CLI:

clawdbot install sdk-team/alibabacloud-waf-billing-backup

Skill Package5 files

📋SKILL.mdmarkdown

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Quality Score

B55/100

Grade Fair — based on market validation, documentation quality, package completeness, maintenance status, and authenticity signals.

Market Validation4/35

· 250 downloads (low demand)
· No tracked installs (may still have real users via manual install)

Documentation20/25

· SKILL.md present
· Detailed documentation (≥3000 chars)
· Contains usage examples or trigger description
· Detailed summary

Package Completeness6/15

· skillAssets present (4 files)

Security Analysis

💙 Low Risk

SUSPICIOUS_PERMISSIONSmedium

Accesses system directories or attempts privilege escalation

sudo mv

UNDOCUMENTED_EXTERNALlow

Calls external URL not in known-safe list

https://help.aliyun.com/zh/cli/configure-credentials

AI Analysis

The skill is a read-only Alibaba Cloud WAF billing query tool that explicitly prohibits Create/Modify/Delete operations and enforces strict credential handling rules (no reading/echoing AK/SK, no plaintext config). The flagged 'sudo mv' and external URL signals are false positives from truncated content and a legitimate Alibaba Cloud documentation link. All API calls go to the official aliyun-cli targeting Alibaba Cloud's own endpoints, consistent with the stated billing backup purpose.

Audited Oct 11, 2026 · audit v1.0

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Usage Guide

Generated Oct 11, 2026

Cloud security engineers responsible for WAF operations and cost oversightFinOps analysts and cloud cost managers tracking Alibaba Cloud service spendCompliance and audit staff needing archived billing evidenceManaged service providers operating WAF for multiple customer accountsDevelopment and DevOps teams running Alibaba Cloud WAF 3.0 in productionbeginner

💡 Application Scenarios

WAF Cost Visibility for Security Operations TeamsCloud Security

Security operations engineers need to understand how much their WAF 3.0 pay-as-you-go instance costs day by day, broken down into SeCU, Credit, and traffic charges. This skill pulls the daily bill summary and hourly fee breakdowns directly into a local workspace. It removes the need to manually navigate the Alibaba Cloud console for routine cost checks.

Scheduled Billing Backup for Compliance AuditsFinancial Services / Compliance

Teams subject to financial or compliance audits must retain historical cloud service billing evidence. This skill exports raw API responses and summary reports as JSON and CSV files on a local or mounted drive. The explicit read-only design ensures no billing or WAF configuration is ever altered during collection.

Monthly Cloud Spend Analysis for FinOpsCloud Cost Management

A FinOps analyst tracking WAF consumption wants to compare daily Credit usage against traffic processing and function fees over a rolling 7-day window. This skill retrieves postpay bills with correct Unix timestamps and produces a structured summary suitable for spreadsheets. The T+1 settlement behavior is communicated explicitly so reports never mix estimated and final figures.

Prepaid WAF Elastic Billing OversightE-commerce

Organizations with a prepaid WAF 3.0 subscription may still incur elastic postpaid charges that are often overlooked. This skill detects the PayType field and routes prepaid users to describe-prepay-daily-bills for elastic bill details. Teams get a clear view of subscription overflow costs without touching the console.

Daily Security Budget Monitoring for Small Cloud TeamsSaaS / Startup

A small team running WAF in ap-southeast-1 needs a lightweight, repeatable way to check yesterday's final bill each morning. The skill handles region fallback, defaults to the last 7 days, and writes CSV backups locally for trend tracking. It avoids complex billing dashboards while still providing audit-ready raw data.

💼 Business Models

Internal Cloud Cost GovernanceIndirect — reduces untracked cloud spend and manual audit labor costs.

Enterprises operate this skill as part of an internal platform engineering toolkit so security and finance teams share the same WAF billing source of truth. It standardizes how daily and hourly charges are queried, timestamped, and archived.

Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) OfferingRecurring monthly reporting fees or bundled into managed WAF operations contracts.

An MSSP runs the skill across multiple customer tenants to produce recurring WAF cost reports as a value-added service. The read-only constraint lowers risk and simplifies customer authorization. Exportable JSON/CSV outputs become the deliverable.

FinOps Automation Add-onUsage-based or subscription pricing for the automation add-on.

A cloud consulting firm packages this skill as a bolt-on module to existing FinOps automation platforms, enabling WAF-specific billing ingestion. It fills a gap in generic cost tools that lack WAF SeCU/Credit granularity.

💬 Integration Tip

Ensure aliyun-cli >= 3.3.3 and a valid credential profile configured via aliyun configure list before invoking the skill. Always apply the T+1 adjustment for 'today' queries and prefer a region fallback from cn-hangzhou to ap-southeast-1 when the instance location is unknown.