What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides users real time guidance to help provision resources following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help optimize AWS infrastructure, increase security and performance, reduce overall costs, and monitor service limits. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, the recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor are designed to help keep solutions provisioned optimally.

Sneha Sharma View profile

Assistant System Engineer in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With AWS Trust Advisor we can simply follow best practices and recommendations of AWS and it helps us to save money and recommend how we can use services effectively that are not being used or rarely used. We use AWS across the AWS team of our cloud department. We make sure that all the applications follow these practices.

Pros

Cost Optimization
Effective use of services
Performance Report

Cons

Although It Provides very good recommendations some times they do not seem logical.
Cost estimation can be improved further for particular services
Need to have a business or Enterprise plan to access you can give some trial period to try

Most Important Features

Cost Advisor
Performance report
Security Suggestions

Return on Investment

Optimized resources
less security attacks
Saved from overbudget

Alternatives Considered

Azure Cost Management

Other Software Used

Azure Cost Management, Azure App Service, AWS Auto Scaling

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