AWS Trusted Advisor pros and cons

4.1 out of 5

6 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

AWS Trusted Advisor offers cost optimization and security enhancements, proving invaluable for tech buyers. It features essential security recommendations and cost-saving insights tailored to company size. While users can optimize AWS infrastructure costs effectively, Trusted Advisor requires AWS CloudWatch installation for memory metrics. It excels with real-time updates on misconfigurations, yet lacks support for non-AWS clouds. Despite limitations, such as missing default memory utilization graphs, ongoing cost improvements are critical for maximizing its benefits.

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PROS

Cost optimization and security-related fixes in AWS Trusted Advisor have been praised.

Users find it useful for optimizing AWS infrastructure cost.

Cost optimization features are highlighted as valuable.

Security Advisor is appreciated for providing free, instant notifications about system misconfigurations.

Key features include security recommendations, cost optimization, and a variety of packages for different company sizes.

CONS

Support for clouds beyond AWS is desired.

For EC2 instances, installing AWS CloudWatch agent is necessary to obtain memory metric due to lack of default memory utilization graph on cost optimization.

Tenancy must be free for all metrics.

Additional security rules would be beneficial.

Cost is a significant factor requiring improvement.

AWS Trusted Advisor Pros review quotes

Labhesh Hase

Associate Director at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Jun 22, 2022

The cost optimization and security-related fixes in AWS Trusted Advisor have been great.

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John D'Arcy

Co-Founder, Professional AWS Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Jan 18, 2025

It is very stable.

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Dec 20, 2024

The key features include security recommendations, cost optimization, and various packages to choose from, depending on the size of the company.

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Shashank N

Security Engineer-DevSecOps at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jan 16, 2024

The Security Advisor is the most valuable feature. It instantly informs you about any system misconfigurations, and the best part is, it's completely free.

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Labhesh Hase

Associate Director at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Jan 5, 2024

The cost optimization features are valuable.

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Chanchal-Singh

Head of Engineering - Data and Machine Learning at TTN

Dec 1, 2023

AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that we can use to optimize the AWS infrastructure cost.

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AWS Trusted Advisor Cons review quotes

Labhesh Hase

Associate Director at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Jun 22, 2022

I'd like the solution to support clouds beyond AWS.

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John D'Arcy

Co-Founder, Professional AWS Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Jan 18, 2025

The integration between Trusted Advisor and Security Hub sometimes lacks, and I need a way to ensure things come through there.

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MuhammadAzhar Khan

Senior DevOps Engineer at Alibaba Group

Dec 20, 2024

Cost is a significant factor that needs improvement.

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Shashank N

Security Engineer-DevSecOps at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jan 16, 2024

Maybe adding more security rules would be great.

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Labhesh Hase

Associate Director at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Jan 5, 2024

The tenancy must be free for all metrics.

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Chanchal-Singh

Head of Engineering - Data and Machine Learning at TTN

Dec 1, 2023

For EC2 instances, we need to install the AWS CloudWatch agent to get the memory metric because we don't have a by-default memory utilization graph on cost optimization.

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