An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment, Trusted Advisor provides real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.
An Introduction to AWS Trusted Advisor
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Like your customized cloud expert, AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your AWS environment and provides best practice recommendations in five categories:
Cost Optimization
Fault Tolerance
Performance
Service Limits
Security
Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, take advantage of the recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor on a regular basis to help keep your solutions provisioned optimally.
For a complete list of checks and descriptions, explore Trusted Advisor Best Practices.
Available to all AWS customers
Access to the seven core Trusted Advisor checks to help increase the security and performance of your environment. Checks include:
Security: S3 Bucket Permissions, Security Groups - Specific Ports Unrestricted, IAM Use, MFA on Root Account, EBS Public Snapshots, RDS Public Snapshots
Service Limits
Available with Business or Enterprise support plans
Access to the full set of Trusted Advisor checks to help optimize your entire AWS infrastructure, helping to increase security and performance, reduce your overall costs, and monitor service limits. Additional benefits include:
Notifications: Stay up-to-date with your AWS resource deployment with weekly updates, plus create alerts and automate actions with Amazon CloudWatch.
Programmatic access: Retrieve and refresh Trusted Advisor results programmatically using AWS Support API.
