An Overview of AWS Trusted Advisor

Trying to ensure that your AWS infrastructure remains optimized at all times can be a daunting task. By the very nature of AWS, your infrastructure is likely to be very fluid with the different resources used across your entire AWS account. As this infrastructure grows within your organization, the management of it can get harder and harder. How can you ensure that you are deploying your resources in the best way to ensure your costs are kept low, you're not over or under-provisioning instances, that your security is tight and that you are implementing the correct level of resiliency should a failure occur? The simple answer would be to use AWS Trusted Advisor.

The main function of AWS Trusted Advisor is to recommend improvements across your AWS account to help optimise and hone your environment based on AWS best practices. These recommendations cover four distinct categories:
Cost optimization - which helps to identify ways in which you could optimise your resources
Performance - this scans your resources to highlight any potential performance issues across multiple services
Security - this category analyses your environment for any potential security weaknesses or vulnerabilities
Fault Tolerance - which suggests best practices to maintain service operations by increasing resiliency, should a fault or incident occur across your resources

This course dives into the service to explain how it works and how you can use it to benefit your AWS account

Learning Objectives

Understand the purpose and benefits of AWS Trusted Advisor
Learn how to navigate the AWS Trusted Advisor Console
Understand how to use AWS Trusted Advisor to optimize your AWS resources and account
Understand how to take actionable steps with AWS Trusted Advisor to improve your AWS infrastructure
Learn how to configure different methods of granting access to AWS Trusted Advisor using IAM policies
Understand how Amazon CloudWatch can monitor and react to changes within AWS Trusted Advisor

Intended Audience

This course would be of benefit to:

Security Professionals & Security Auditors
Systems Engineers and Administrators
CIO, CTO, IT Managers & Technical Business Leads
Compliance Managers
Anyone looking to learn more about AWS Security

Prerequisites

I recommend that you have a basic understanding and awareness of AWS and common services. It would also be advantageous if you have an understanding of IAM Policies, although this is not essential