Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor inspects AWS environments and makes recommendations that can save money, improve availability and performance, and close security gaps. The available checks differ based upon the level of support associated with the account.

Concepts

• Checks examine an individual property of an AWS service.
  • Checks have associated severities:
    • Action recommended (red)
    • Investigation recommended (yellow)
    • Excluded items (grey)
• Check categories group checks by area:
  • Cost optimisation
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Fault tolerance
  • Service limits