How long does the integration take?

Change one base URL in an OpenAI-compatible client, or install the Python or TypeScript SDK; the quickstart routes a first request in a few minutes.

Will this lock us into another vendor?

No. The router is Apache-2.0 open source, your provider keys stay yours, and the API is OpenAI-compatible, so leaving is a change of base URL.

What happens when a provider fails?

The router falls back to the next model your policy allows and records the fallback in the trace, so an outage costs a retry, not an incident.

launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices - Skill

Name: launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices
Author: aws

Imported from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (skills/specialized-skills/ec2-skills/launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices/SKILL.md) via skills.sh. Install upstream with npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices. Copyright stays with the author.

Launching EC2 Instances with Best Practices

Overview

Domain expertise for launching EC2 instances with sensible defaults optimized for security, cost-efficiency, and operational best practices. Covers AMI selection, instance type recommendation, network configuration, IAM role creation, security group hardening, storage configuration, tagging strategy, and post-launch verification.

Launch an EC2 instance

To launch a fully configured EC2 instance with best-practice defaults, follow the procedure exactly. See EC2 instance launch procedure.

The procedure handles:

Intelligent defaults based on workload type and environment
Network validation (VPC, subnet, public/private placement)
AMI selection with architecture compatibility checks
Least-privilege IAM roles for required AWS service access
Hardened security groups with minimal port exposure
Encrypted gp3 storage with environment-appropriate retention
Comprehensive tagging for cost tracking and organization
Post-launch verification and connection instructions

Troubleshooting

Insufficient instance capacity

Try a different availability zone or instance type (e.g., t3a instead of t3). See the full troubleshooting guide in the launch procedure.

Instance immediately terminates

Check console output with aws ec2 get-console-output. Verify EBS volume size is sufficient and AMI is compatible with the instance type.

Cannot connect via SSH

Verify the security group allows SSH from your IP, key file permissions are 400, and the instance is running. Consider AWS Systems Manager Session Manager as an alternative.

Install launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices and it becomes one more candidate the router can pick - when it fits.

A listing is a routing target with a manifest: what it does, which domains it covers, what it costs and who publishes it. Once installed it sits beside your own models and tools, is scored like any other candidate for each request, and shows up in the trace when it wins. Ratings come from workspaces that installed it, one per account.

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launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices

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Launching EC2 Instances with Best Practices

Overview

Launch an EC2 instance

Troubleshooting

Insufficient instance capacity

Instance immediately terminates

Cannot connect via SSH

Install launching-ec2-instance-with-best-practices and it becomes one more candidate the router can pick - when it fits.

What it costs to adopt - in engineering time.

One base URL

No vendor lock-in

Failover built in

Use it

Manifest

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