AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor is an online resource that helps you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by following AWS best practices. It offers insights and recommendations across various AWS services to help you optimize your infrastructure.
Key Features
- Cost Optimization: Identify opportunities to reduce your overall AWS spending by highlighting unused resources and recommending cost-saving measures.
- Performance Improvement: Receive recommendations to improve the performance of your AWS infrastructure by addressing potential bottlenecks and optimizing resource utilization.
- Security Enhancements: Trusted Advisor checks your AWS environment against best practices to improve security, including identifying potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
- Fault Tolerance: Improve the reliability of your AWS applications by following recommendations to increase fault tolerance and availability.
- Service Limits: Monitor your usage against service limits and receive alerts when you approach or exceed those limits.
Architecture Overview
The following diagram illustrates how AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates and provides recommendations for your AWS environment:
- Data Collection: Trusted Advisor continuously monitors your AWS resources and usage patterns.
- Best Practice Checks: The service evaluates your environment against AWS best practices and generates recommendations for cost, performance, security, and fault tolerance.
- Reports and Dashboards: Provides detailed reports and visualizations to help you act on the recommendations.
Use Cases
- Cost Management: Optimize your AWS spending by identifying idle resources and choosing more cost-effective options.
- Security Posture Improvement: Enhance your security by following Trusted Advisor’s recommendations for identity and access management, encryption, and network configuration.
- Infrastructure Reliability: Increase the fault tolerance of your applications by adhering to best practices for high availability and disaster recovery.
Integration with Other AWS Services
AWS Trusted Advisor integrates with several other AWS services to offer a comprehensive set of recommendations:
- AWS Organizations: Use Trusted Advisor across multiple AWS accounts within an organization to manage costs and improve security at scale.
- Amazon CloudWatch: Monitor performance and receive alerts based on Trusted Advisor recommendations to take immediate action.
- AWS Config: Ensure compliance by continuously monitoring configuration changes and their impact on best practices.
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Improve security by following recommendations for IAM roles, policies, and multi-factor authentication (MFA).