Learning how to use AWS Trusted Advisor
The AWS Trusted Advisor service analyzes your resources and how they have been configured. The service helps to measure the configuration of your resources against best practices and identify opportunities to save money, improve system availability and performance, or address security concerns.
Specifically, the Trusted Advisor service will report on its analysis against the following core categories:
- Cost optimization: Performs checks on your resources to identify which ones are underutilized. AWS Trusted Advisor will then offer recommendations on where you could reduce your costs. For example, Elastic IP addresses are only free if they are attached to a running EC2 instance. AWS charges you an hourly fee for provisioning Elastic IP addresses if they are not being consumed, that is, not attached to any instance, or attached to an instance that is in a stopped state.
- Performance: Offers recommendations on where you can improve...
