The AWS Trusted Advisor service has been around for quite some time and continues to play an integral role in helping customers to optimize their AWS environment through recommended best practices. It acts, much as the name suggests, as an advisor to you and highlights and recommends enhancements against a number of predefined best practice checks across five different areas of your account:
Within each of these areas, AWS Trusted Advisor has a list of predefined checks based on best practices that should be adhered to within your AWS account. Trusted Advisor would then highlight and identify any misalignment with these checks and suggest remediation steps to take action against the alert criteria. We will understand this better in the Reviewing deviations using AWS Trusted Advisor section, when we actually carry out a check in our environment. For now, just make sure you understand the basics.
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