Trusted Advisor Vpc

Front 1

Where does Trusted Advisor fit into the overall scheme of things?

Back 1

The AWS Support packages that are offered as an enterprise 'enhancement'

Front 2

What does trusted advisor do?

Back 2

Inspects an environment, identifies optimisations based on an aggregated data of customer pain points.

Front 3

What are the 6 checks that all AWS customers get?

Back 3

• S3 Bucket Permissions
• Security Groups - Specific Ports Unrestricted
• IAM Use
• MFA on Root Account
• EBS Public Snapshots
• RDS Public Snapshots

Front 4

What would be the general pain points that TA might help identify?

Back 4

• Wasted money (over-resourcing)
• Sub-optimal performance
• Security gaps

Front 5

What are the overall categories that TA will check? As a hint these are to do with money, architecture and customer experience.

Back 5

• Cost Optimisation
• Security
• Fault Tolerance
• Service Limits
• Performance

Front 6

What is an important metric to be aware of when using Trusted Advisor?

Back 6

Calls to the TA API will appear as entries in the Cloudwatch logs, as customer actions will trigger TA API calls.

Front 7

How would I make a CLI call to get the optimisations for a security group?

Back 7

aws support describe-trusted-advisor-check-result --check id --profile=your profile