Leverage AWS Trusted Advisor

Unlock powerful recommendations from AWS Trusted Advisor to optimize your cloud infrastructure costs, improve performance, and strengthen security. Transform your AWS environment with data-driven insights.

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What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

AWS Trusted Advisor is a real-time guidance service that inspects your AWS environment and provides recommendations to help you optimize costs, improve security, enhance performance, and improve fault tolerance. It analyzes your AWS resources against AWS best practices and delivers actionable insights tailored to your specific infrastructure.

Identifies underutilized resources that are draining your budget unnecessarily
Highlights security vulnerabilities and compliance risks in your AWS environment
Recommends performance improvements for better application responsiveness
Provides fault tolerance suggestions to improve your infrastructure resilience

Why AWS Trusted Advisor Matters

Transform your AWS strategy with intelligent, automated recommendations

Immediate Cost Reduction

Identify and eliminate unnecessary spending with targeted cost optimization recommendations.

Enhanced Security

Detect security risks and compliance gaps before they become vulnerabilities.

Better Performance

Get recommendations to improve application responsiveness and infrastructure efficiency.

Informed Decision Making

Access comprehensive insights to make data-driven cloud infrastructure decisions.

The Five Pillars of AWS Trusted Advisor

Cost Optimization

Reduce Your AWS Spending

Trusted Advisor identifies idle resources, underutilized instances, unattached storage volumes, and other cost inefficiencies. Get specific recommendations on reserved instances, savings plans, and right-sizing opportunities to reduce your cloud spending.

Identify idle resources and low-utilization instances
Discover savings from Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
Optimize data transfer and storage costs
Right-size resources based on actual usage patterns

Security

Strengthen Your Security Posture

Receive actionable recommendations to improve the security of your AWS environment. Trusted Advisor checks for security groups with open ports, IAM security issues, and other compliance risks.

Identify overly permissive security groups and network access
Review IAM policies and access control configurations
Ensure proper encryption and SSL certificate management
Check for compliance with AWS security best practices

Fault Tolerance

Improve Infrastructure Resilience

Strengthen your infrastructure against failures and disruptions. Trusted Advisor provides recommendations to increase availability and reliability of your applications.

Ensure multi-Availability Zone redundancy for critical resources
Review backup and disaster recovery configurations
Identify single points of failure in your infrastructure
Improve health checks and auto-scaling settings

Performance

Enhance Application Performance

Optimize your infrastructure for faster, more responsive applications. Get recommendations to improve throughput, reduce latency, and ensure optimal resource utilization.

Optimize database performance and configuration
Improve networking and content delivery
Right-size compute resources for optimal performance
Leverage caching and acceleration strategies

Service Quotas

Monitor Resource Limits

Stay informed about AWS service quotas and limits. Trusted Advisor tracks your usage against account limits to help you avoid hitting quota constraints that could disrupt operations.

Monitor service quota usage and limits
Receive alerts when approaching resource limits
Plan capacity based on quota recommendations
Prevent service disruptions due to limit constraints

AWS Trusted Advisor Plans

Choose the right Trusted Advisor plan for your organization's needs

Core Checks (Free)

Available to all AWS customers at no cost. Includes basic checks across the five pillars with limited recommendations.

Full Checks (Business or Enterprise)

Comprehensive checks across all five pillars with full coverage. Includes access to API, programmatic access, and CloudWatch integration for enhanced monitoring.

Real-Time Notifications

Get immediate alerts when new recommendations are available. Receive proactive notifications to stay informed of optimization opportunities as they arise.

Integration with AWS Support

Combine Trusted Advisor with AWS Support for deeper insights. Business and Enterprise support plans include direct guidance on implementing recommendations.

Getting Started with AWS Trusted Advisor

1

Access AWS Trusted Advisor

Log in to your AWS Management Console and navigate to the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard from the services menu.

2

Review Current Recommendations

Examine the recommendations across all five pillars. Each recommendation includes severity level and expected impact.

3

Prioritize by Impact

Focus on high-risk security issues first, then move to cost optimization opportunities with the greatest savings potential.

4

Plan Implementation

Create an action plan for implementing recommendations. Consider dependencies, testing requirements, and business impact.

5

Implement Changes

Execute changes in a controlled manner. Start with non-production environments to test and validate recommendations.

6

Track Progress

Monitor your implementation progress in Trusted Advisor. Watch as recommendations are resolved and new opportunities emerge.

7

Enable Notifications

Set up CloudWatch notifications or use AWS Support integration to stay informed about new recommendations automatically.

8

Regular Review Cycle

Establish a regular cadence for reviewing Trusted Advisor recommendations. Make it part of your monthly cloud governance process.

Expected Results

Organizations implementing Trusted Advisor recommendations typically see measurable improvements quickly

15-30%

Cost Reduction

from implementing cost recommendations

90%+

Compliance

against AWS best practices

2-4

Week Timeline

to see initial cost savings

100%

Visibility

into optimization opportunities

Ready to Optimize with AWS Trusted Advisor?

Let our AWS experts help you leverage Trusted Advisor to reduce costs and improve your cloud infrastructure. We'll guide you through prioritizing and implementing recommendations.

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