Description

AWS Trusted Advisor is a service that provides real-time guidance to help you optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve security, and reduce costs by following best practices.

Features

• Cost Optimization: Identifies opportunities to reduce your overall AWS costs.
• Performance Improvement: Recommends ways to increase the performance of your applications.
• Security Enhancement: Provides best practices to improve the security of your AWS environment.
• Fault Tolerance: Suggests ways to make your applications more resilient to failures.
• Service Limits: Alerts you to approaching service limits to prevent disruptions.

Limitations

• Limited Free Tier Access: Full access to all checks requires a Business or Enterprise Support plan.
• Complex Recommendations: Some suggestions may require significant technical expertise to implement.
• Static Recommendations: Recommendations are based on best practices and may not always align with unique use cases.

Use Cases

• Cost Reduction for Enterprises: Large organizations use Trusted Advisor to identify and shut down underutilized resources, leading to significant cost savings.
• Enhancing Security Posture: Companies leverage Trusted Advisor to ensure compliance with security best practices, such as enabling MFA and encrypting data.
• Improving Application Performance: Businesses utilize Trusted Advisor to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring their applications run smoothly and efficiently.

Examples