AWS Trusted Advisor provides you with recommendations and real-time guidance on the following four areas to optimize your resources as per AWS best practices:
- Cost optimization
- Performance
- Security
- Fault tolerance
This service analyzes and checks your AWS environment in real-time on an ongoing basis. It integrates with AWS IAM so you can control access to checks as well as to categories. The status of these checks is displayed in the AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard under the following color coded scheme:
- Red: Action recommended
- Yellow: Investigation recommended
- Green: No problem detected
For all checks where the color is red or yellow, this service will provide alert criteria, recommended actions, and investigations along with resource details, such as details of the security groups that allow unrestricted access for specific ports.
By default, six core checks...
