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Trusted Advisor

  • No need to install anything - high level AWS account assessment
  • It does analyze an AWS account and provides recommendations regarding:
    • Const optimization
    • Performance
    • Security
    • Fault tolerance
    • Service limits
    • Operational Excellence
  • It has 2 tiers:
    • Free tier
    • Business & Enterprise Support plan:
      • For full set of check
      • Programmatic access using AWS support API
  • Core checks and recommendations are enabled for all customers
    • We can enable weekly email notifications from the console
  • Full Trusted Advices: available for Business and Enterprise support plans
    • Provides the ability to set CloudWatch alarms when limits are reached

Trusted Advisor Automation

  • We can use EventBridge to detect and react to changes it the status of Trusted Advisor checks
  • Examples of automation: https://github.com/aws/Trusted-Advisor-Tools
  • Trusted Advisor has integration with CloudWatch Alarms in order to monitor service limits (for business and enterprise support plans)
  • Trusted Advisor refresh:
    • Can be done manually every 5 minutes
    • Can be done programmatically:
      • refresh-trusted-advisor-check
      • describe-trusted-advisor-check-result, ...-statuses, ...-summaries
    • In case of Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support plan, Trusted Advisor automatically refreshes the checks in our account account on a weekly basis