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name: Cost Guardrails
description: See the main Budget Guardrails skill for comprehensive coverage of cost controls and governance.
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# Cost Guardrails

This skill is covered in detail in the main **Budget Guardrails** skill.

Please refer to: `42-cost-engineering/budget-guardrails/SKILL.md`

That skill covers:
- Budget types and hierarchies
- Soft and hard limit enforcement
- Alert thresholds and escalation
- AWS Budgets + Lambda automation
- Resource quotas (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes)
- Sandbox environment management
- Runaway resource protection
- Governance frameworks
- Real-world budget guardrail implementations

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## Related Skills
- `42-cost-engineering/budget-guardrails` (Main skill)
- `42-cost-engineering/cost-observability`
- `42-cost-engineering/cloud-cost-models`