Cloud & DevOps Workflows

Route accounting questions to the narrowest specialist in the catalog. Use when you do not already know the specialist needed. Not for direct accounting answers; Maestro classifies, dispatches, and synthesizes only. Dispatches single agent for focused tasks, parallel team (max 3) for multi-domain tasks. Never auto-dispatches any write-capable agent — requires explicit human confirmation before routing to any agent with ledger or ERP write access.

Use when reviewing ad-platform audience targeting configurations and declared AI feature usage for protected-class discrimination risk. Trigger when a user provides a Meta Ads Manager audience definition, Google Ads targeting layer export, DSP deal config, or any ad platform audience spec annotated with AI features enabled (Advantage+ Audience, broad match, automated bidding, lookalike seeds). Use when a campaign is in housing, credit, employment, or insurance verticals, or when automated bidding or AI audience expansion is active on any campaign reaching the US or EU and the user needs to assess Fair Housing Act, ECOA, or EU AI Act Article 5 exposure.

Operate ACK clusters (managed/dedicated/serverless), ACR container registries, ASM service mesh, and container workload placement. Guide ACK type selection, OIDC workload identity, and image vulnerability posture.

Query Alibaba Cloud ActionTrail management API call history, build governance audit reports, create SLS-based compliance evidence trails, and detect anomalous admin activity patterns.

Pre-change blast radius analysis for Alibaba Cloud — Resource Directory OU scope mapping, RAM policy cascade effects, VPC peering and CEN impact, SLB backend pool changes, RDS connection pool disruption, and safe change sequencing.

Advise on MLPS 2.0 grading and technical controls, DSL Article 31 cross-border data transfer, CSL network operator obligations, PIPL personal data requirements, and ICP Beian filing for mainland China CN- region workloads.

Detect and coordinate response to Alibaba Cloud cost anomalies — MaxCompute CU vs on-demand billing mismatch, ECS spot instance interruption cascades, CDN traffic spike billing, OSS API request cost explosions, budget alert → DingTalk notification → remediation playbook.

Analyze Alibaba Cloud spend via Cost Manager, optimize Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage, design resource tagging strategy, investigate budget drift, and right-size over-provisioned ECS, RDS, and MaxCompute resources.

Coordinate the daily Alibaba Cloud operations standup — cost delta from Cost Manager, ActionTrail anomaly review, ACK pod failure triage, quota utilization warnings, Security Center finding review, and action item assignment.

Build CI/CD pipelines with RDC (Research and Development Collaboration), Cloud Build, Flow pipeline automation, ACR (Container Registry) image lifecycle, and environment promotion strategies.

Operate ECS instances, Auto Scaling groups, ECI serverless containers, and Cloud Assistant O&M automation. Handle instance lifecycle, image management, placement groups, spot/preemptible instances, and scheduled scaling.

Review Alibaba Cloud EventBridge, MNS (Message Notification Service), RocketMQ, and MSE event-driven designs — dead-letter queues, message ordering, idempotency, retry storm prevention, schema registry, and consumer group lag monitoring.

Deploy and operate Function Compute 3.0, SAE (Serverless App Engine) applications, and EDAS microservice apps. Guide the serverless vs. PaaS vs. container platform choice for each workload type.

Review Terraform and ROS (Resource Orchestration Service) changes targeting Alibaba Cloud — blast radius analysis, resource deletion detection, cross-stack dependency impact, Resource Directory scope, and rollback plan completeness.

Audit and govern Alibaba Cloud KMS key lifecycles, Certificate Manager, SSM (Secrets Manager), and HSM key operations. Ensure encryption-at-rest coverage and rotation compliance across CMKs, envelope encryption, and certificate lifecycle.

Design Alibaba Cloud landing zone — Resource Management org tree, Cloud SSO, Control Policy (SCP equivalent), multi-account governance baseline, billing account structure, and ActionTrail centralization.

Gate ACK deployment mutations, node pool scaling, and cluster version upgrades against rollback posture and workload disruption budget. Prevents irreversible cluster version upgrades from proceeding without PodDisruptionBudget verification, node drain confirmation, and explicit operator approval.

Gate live financial authority actions — budget threshold changes, Savings Plan purchases, and Reserved Instance commitments. These are committed spend or can trigger immediate service suspension.

Gate KMS key deletion and disable operations. All data encrypted with a deleted CMK (OSS SSE-KMS, ECS encrypted disks, RDS/PolarDB TDE) becomes permanently and irrecoverably inaccessible. This guard enforces complete CMK dependency audits, deletion window confirmation, and explicit operator approval before any key state mutation.

Gate OSS bucket ACL and policy mutations — public-read/write ACL exposes data to internet crawlers within seconds; CN- cross-border replication requires DSL Article 31 assessment.

Gate RAM policy/role mutations against the Alibaba Cloud account hierarchy. RAM AdministratorAccess assignment, policy deletion with active STS tokens, and Resource Directory Control Policy changes carry account-wide or org-wide blast radius. This guard enforces blast-radius assessment, STS token impact analysis, and explicit authority approval before any policy mutation is executed.

Gate RDS/PolarDB instance deletion, spec downgrade, and backup policy removal — database deletion without verified backup is permanently destructive.

Traffic engineering for Alibaba Cloud load balancers — CLB (Classic, legacy), ALB (Application Load Balancer, Layer 7 advanced routing), NLB (Network Load Balancer, Layer 4 high throughput), and GA (Global Accelerator) — type selection, health check design, WAF integration, and traffic distribution.

Alibaba Cloud Maestro routing skill. Classify the user's Alibaba Cloud task, select the narrowest specialist agent or the right team of specialists from the catalog, and dispatch them — single specialist for focused tasks, parallel team (max 4) for multi-domain tasks. Never auto-dispatch live-guard agents. China-region aware — flags when workloads are in mainland China regions and applicable regulatory frameworks (MLPS 2.0, DSL, PIPL) differ from international regions.