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AWS Trusted Advisor: Everything You Need to Know

To assist you in allocating your resources according to AWS best practices, AWS Trusted Advisor offers 24/7 advice. Using your past Amazon EC2 computing usage, AWS Trusted Advisor determines the ideal amount of partial upfront reserved instances to help you make the most of your reserved instance usage.

This blog will cover everything you need to know about AWS Trusted Advisor.

What is an AWS Trusted Adviser?

AWS Trusted Advisor is an online resource to optimize your costs and performance and enhance security and resilience. Utilizing best practice checks in the areas of cloud cost optimization, performance, resilience, security, operational excellence, and service limits, Trusted Advisor systematically assesses your AWS environment and makes recommendations for correcting any inconsistencies. 

By offering prioritized and context-driven recommendations from your AWS account team, Trusted Advisor Priority assists AWS Enterprise Support customers in concentrating on the most crucial issues.

How does AWS Trusted Advisor work? 

The way that AWS Trusted Advisor operates is by first scanning the cloud architecture of your company and comparing it to industry best practices in several categories, including fault tolerance, performance, security, and cost optimization. It offers suggestions to help you lower expenses, boost security, and increase performance in your AWS environment based on this study. 

Trusted Advisor gives comprehensive details for every recommendation, including the resources that are impacted, the possible consequences, and the actions to be taken to resolve the problem. This enables you to optimize your AWS infrastructure proactively.

Benefits of an AWS Trusted Advisor 

  1. Follow the best practices of AWS: identify deviations from AWS best practices and get recommended actions to remediate.
  2. Prioritize significant suggestions: prioritized recommendations from your AWS account team, based on your business priorities, critical applications, and urgency of recommendation, are available to Enterprise Support customers.
  3. Improve communication within your company: Get better alignment in your teams through greater visibility, monitoring, and tracking of prioritized recommendations, available to Enterprise Support customers.
  4. Streamline your AWS resources on a large scale: Get an aggregated view of recommendations across your organization or integrate programmatically with Trusted Advisor APIs.
  5. Cost optimization: it can save your financial resources by identifying idle resources, and it helps reduce AWS spending. It recommends resizing instances or terminating unused resources. 
  6. Fault Tolerance: recommendations that make your applications more resilient by drawing attention to malfunctions, incomplete backups, and deficiencies in redundancy. 
  7. Business agility: AWS enables your business to quickly adapt to changing market conditions. With the ability to instantly scale resources up or down, you can respond to new opportunities and challenges with agility. This flexibility allows you to innovate faster and stay ahead of the competition.
  8. Operational Resilience: AWS provides a highly reliable infrastructure with built-in redundancy and failover capabilities. 

How to get started with AWS Trusted Advisor? 

AWS Trusted Advisor offers different levels of support plans to accommodate your needs.

  1. Basic support plan: includes limited access to a few core checks and primarily focuses on security. 
  2. Support plan for business and enterprise: it includes full access to all trusted advisor checks and covers all five major key areas such as performance, security, cost optimisation, fault tolerance, and service limits. 

To sign in to AWS Advisor: 

  1. Sign in to the trusted advisor console.  
  2. Go to the Trusted Advisor Recommendation page and view the summary for each category.  
  • Action recommended: A trusted advisor suggests taking a certain step for the check. For instance, a security check on your IAM resources might point to the need for immediate action.
  • Investigation recommended: A trusted advisor sees a potential problem with the check. For example, a check that reaches a resource quota may suggest methods for removing resources that are not being used.
  • Check the excluded items: the quantity of checks that do not include items that you want a check to ignore, like resources. For example, you might not want the check to evaluate Amazon EC2 instances.

The Trusted Advisor Recommendation page allows you to do the following: 

  1. To refresh all checks in your account, choose Refresh all checks.
  2. To create an .xls file that includes all check results, choose Download all checks.
  3. Under Checks summary, choose a check category, such as security, to view the results.
  4. You can view how much you can save for your account and the cost optimization checks for recommendations under Potential Monthly Savings.
  5. You can view changes to check statuses within the last 30 days. Choose a check name to view the latest results for that check, or choose the arrow icon to view the next page under Recent Changes.

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Conclusion

There are numerous justifications for switching from on-site data centers to cloud-based systems. The main factors that have drawn many firms to adopt a cloud architecture are its high flexibility, agility, and low beginning costs. Eventually, though, especially with the involvement of several teams, controlling expenses for AWS accounts becomes difficult. With the assistance of an AWS Trusted Advisor, you may automatically gain insights about your AWS resources and take the necessary action. While enterprise and commercial support come with extra costs, Trusted Advisor typically offers significant cost savings, enhanced security, and an extremely durable configuration.