Management and Governance
AWS Trusted Advisor
A recommendation service that checks AWS environments across categories such as cost optimization, performance, resilience, security, operational excellence, and service limits.
Key points
- Available checks and programmatic features depend on the Support plan.
- Recommendations help identify improvement opportunities; they do not automatically redesign workloads.
- Trusted Advisor evaluates the environment, while AWS Health reports service and account events.
Best-known use cases
- Find idle resources or security-improvement recommendations.
- Review quota and fault-tolerance guidance available to the account.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Trusted Advisor gives best-practice recommendations; AWS Health reports events that can affect resources.
- Cost Explorer analyzes spend; Trusted Advisor can recommend cost-optimization actions.
Key Cloud Practitioner takeaway
Use Trusted Advisor for environment recommendations, and qualify plan-dependent coverage.
Related services
- AWS Health Dashboard
- AWS Cost Explorer
Relevant exam tasks
- D2.4
- D4.3