Trusted Advisor

Introduction

• Out-of-box high level AWS account assessment

• Provides recommendations:

  • Cost Optimization

  • Performance

  • Security

  • Fault Tolerance

  • Service Limits

• Can enable weekly email notification from the console

• 7 Core Checks and recommendations for Basic / Developer support plans

• Full set of checks are available for Business / Enterprise support plans

  • Ability to set CloudWatch alarms when reaching limits

  • Programmatic Access to AWS Support APIs

Feature

• Can check if an S3 bucket is made public

  • But cannot check for a S3 object is public inside of the bucket

  • Use CloudWatch Event / S3 Events instead to trigger Lambda to verify the object.

• Service Limits

  • Limits can only be monitored in Trusted Advisor (cannot be changed)

  • If want to change the limit, need to manually create AWS Support Center case.