24-07 AWS Trusted Advisor

Last updated Aug 17, 2023 Edit Source

AWS Trusted Advisor is a recommendation tool that automatically and actively monitors your AWS account to provide actional recommendations across a series of categories. #aws-service

Think of AWS Trusted Advisor like an automated checklist of best practices on AWS

The 5 categories of AWS Trusted Advisor

• Cost Optimization – How can we save money?
• Performance – How can we improve performance?
• Security – How can we improve security?
• Fault Tolerance – How can we prevent a disaster or data loss?
• Service Limits – Are we going to hit the maximum limit for a service?

AWS Trusted Advisor provides different levels of checks based on your AWS Support Plan

• 7 Trusted Advisor Checks

• 7 Trusted Advisor Checks

• All Trusted Advisor Checks
  • Includes the 5 check categories
  • You can use the AWS Support API and AWS CLI to access your checks

• All Trusted Advisor Checks
  • Includes the 5 check categories
  • You can use the AWS Support API and AWS CLI to access your checks

AWS provides the following six security checks for free:

• MFA on Root Account
• Security Groups – Specific Ports of Unrestricted
• Amazon S3 Bucket Permissions
• Amazon EBS Public Snapshots
• Amazon RDS Public Snapshots
• IAM Use -  discourage the use of root access
• Service Limits (All Service limits checks are free)