AWS Trusted Advisor
Blog post from Stream.Security
AWS Trusted Advisor is an essential tool for organizations using Amazon Web Services, offering comprehensive analyses and actionable recommendations to optimize costs, enhance performance, and bolster security. It performs cost optimization checks to identify savings opportunities by addressing underutilized resources, idle instances, and over-provisioned services, thereby reducing waste and optimizing resource use. The tool also provides insights for purchasing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, enabling significant cost reductions compared to On-Demand pricing. Additionally, it analyzes data transfer patterns to minimize costs and improve network performance, assesses storage usage to enhance efficiency and reduce expenses, and ensures load balancers are effectively configured to avoid unnecessary costs. Trusted Advisor further suggests rightsizing EC2 instances according to actual usage patterns to maintain performance while reducing expenditure.