AWS Trusted Advisor

Learn how to use Trusted Advisor to optimize costs, improve performance, enhance security, and ensure fault tolerance.

advisor-config.json
{
"TrustedAdvisor": {
"Categories": [
"Cost Optimization",
"Performance",
"Security"
]
}
}
advisor-config.json
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Tutor:AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. It analyzes your AWS environment and provides recommendations.


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AWS Trusted Advisor

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Pascual Vila

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AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. It analyzes your AWS environment and provides recommendations.

Categories

Trusted Advisor checks your account across five categories: Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance, and Service Limits. Each category has specific checks that analyze your resources.

Cost Optimization

Cost Optimization recommendations help you reduce your AWS spending. Examples include identifying underutilized EC2 instances, unused Elastic IP addresses, and idle load balancers.

Security & Performance

Security recommendations help improve the security posture of your AWS account. Performance recommendations help improve the speed and responsiveness of your applications.

Trusted Advisor Glossary

Trusted Advisor
An online tool that provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. It analyzes your AWS environment and provides recommendations.
Cost Optimization
Recommendations that help reduce AWS spending by identifying underutilized resources, unused Elastic IPs, and idle load balancers.
Performance
Recommendations that help improve the speed and responsiveness of applications by identifying overutilized instances and underutilized storage.
Fault Tolerance
Recommendations that help improve availability and redundancy by ensuring resources are deployed across multiple Availability Zones.
Service Limits
Alerts when you're approaching AWS service limits on resources like EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and VPCs. You can request limit increases if needed.