In this article, I will discuss what is a trusted advisor and how you can get benefited from it, by following those suggestions on security, cost and performance.

What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

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

Trusted Advisor gives suggestion on 5 areas. Couple of them are available in your free support plan while other’s are only available for business plan.

How to Use it

First create an AWS account by following my other article, and then from services area, go to ‘Trusted Advisor’. Then you will see 5 areas where Trusted advisor will give you suggestion to optimize cost, increase security and do better performance.

I have created a detailed video on how you can get some useful advice from trusted advisor.