What is AWS Trusted Advisor?
Optimizing large-scale cloud deployments is an ongoing process. Trusted Advisor continuously evaluates your AWS environment using best practice checks across five categories: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits.
All AWS Support plans include access to dozens of checks. Business Support and advanced plans provide hundreds of checks.
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Trusted Advisor Features
Check Categories
- Cost optimization: Identify unused resources and opportunities to reduce spending
- Performance: Improve speed and responsiveness of your applications
- Security: Review permissions and identify security gaps
- Fault tolerance: Increase availability and redundancy
- Service limits: Track usage against service quotas
Dashboard
Access Trusted Advisor from the AWS Management Console. The dashboard shows completed checks and results per category:
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- Green check: No problems detected
- Orange triangle: Recommended investigations
- Red circle: Recommended actions
IAM Access Analyzer
While Trusted Advisor checks security at a high level, IAM Access Analyzer helps with fine-grained IAM permissions. It helps meet your least privilege goals by analyzing external access and validating that policies match your corporate security standards.
- Refine and validate IAM policies
- Automate policy reviews
- Verify who can access what
- Remediate unused or overly broad access
Learn more: Trusted Advisor Product Page
