Using Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool you can use to get real-time reports on all of your AWS services. Trusted Advisor will by default highlight the following areas:
- Cost optimization—You will be given recommendations that can save you money. Typically, this will be downsizing an instance or changing a storage type if it isn't being used.
- Performance—You will be advised on how to improve the performance of your applications or databases. For example, this may show when an RDS instance is running at a high central processing unit (CPU) or is suffering from high disk input/output (I/O).
- Security—You will be able to see recommendations about security for your application and database, including security group configuration and patches that need to be applied.
- Fault tolerance—Typically, Trusted Advisor will notify you if you are not using a Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) configuration for production workloads or if...
