Trusted Advisor

Solution Architect Associate

Security Specialty

  • Fully managed best-practice auditing tool
  • The service is free, but there are features locked behind having an AWS Support Plan for the account
  • As your account begins to scale, it becomes difficult to understand and keep track of the various resources that are deployed
  • Trusted Advisor provides best practices in five categories:
    • Security, Fault Tolerance, Performance, Cost Optimization, Service Limits
  • Identifies under utilized EC2 instances, recommends Reserved Instances, and EBS volume checks
  • Trusted Advisor compares your account resources with known best practices.
  • Also provides an API for integration
  • Can send notifications as well
  • Integrates with CloudWatch events as well to allow you to automate changes to environment based off of events
  • Service Limits check allows you to see usage vs. any set limits. Alerts you when you’re getting close to a limit for any service, and gives you time to ask for increases prior to issues arising due to hitting caps
  • Security checks for things like IAM password policies, recent cases involving outages from any customer, etc.
  • Fault Tolerance has a number of checks associated with common support tickets, allowing you to avoid hitting common issues.
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