Integrating Trusted Advisor with other AWS services
Trusted Advisor is one of many tools that you can use to monitor costs across your accounts. At the beginning of this chapter, we established that tools alone aren’t enough to leverage the long-term benefits of cost optimization. You need people and processes as well. In this case, the people involved are folks that constitute a centralized FinOps team. The process that we’ll outline here involves integrating Trusted Advisor with SM to provide a comprehensive view of cost optimization checks across your AWS Organization.
The first thing you’ll want to do is enable SM Explorer. You can create a customizable operations dashboard using SM Explorer to report on information about your AWS resources. This is helpful for a centralized FinOps function that requires a pan-account resource view to find opportunities to optimize. Although SM Explorer isn’t limited to only viewing cost-related components of your...
