Trusted Advisor

  • Account level - no agents to install, it just works
  • Basic Features
    • Cos Optimization
    • Performance
    • Security
    • Fault Tolerance
    • Service Limits
  • 7 core checks iwht basic and devloper support plans
  • Anything beyond requires Business or Enterprise

  • 7 Core Checks

    • S3 Buckets - Open Permissions
    • Security Groups - 0.0.0.0/0 for ports
    • IAM Use - at least one IAM user
    • MFA on Root Account
    • EBS Public Snapshots
    • RDS Public Snapshots
    • 50 Service limit checks

  • Business and Enterprise Support - addition to core checks 115 further checks

    • Access via the AWS support API
    • Allow programatic capability
    • CloudWatch Integration