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.
Like your customized cloud expert, AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your AWS environment and provides best practice recommendations in four categories:
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Cost Optimization
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Performance
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Security
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Fault Tolerance
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
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Access to the four core Trusted Advisor checks to help increase the security and performance of your environment. Checks include:
Security: Security Groups - Specific Ports Unrestricted, IAM Use, MFA on Root Account
Performance: Service Limits
Available with Business or Enterprise support plans
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Access to the full set of Trusted Advisor checks to help optimize your entire AWS infrastructure, helping to increase security and performance, and reduce your overall costs. Additional benefits include:
Notifications: Stay up-to-date with your AWS resource deployment with weekly updates.
Programmatic access: Retrieve and refresh Trusted Advisor results programmatically using AWS Support API.