AWS Trusted Advisor Reviews

I usually utilize Trusted Advisor for cloud optimization strategies. I often use it when I have business support or development support packages.

Trusted Advisor offers features that provide inside information for the entire account, including identifying security gaps and offering cost optimization insights. 

The key features include security recommendations, cost optimization, and various packages to choose from, depending on the size of the company. It is especially beneficial for larger companies, as the tool provides a comprehensive view of account security, open ports, buckets, and offers recommendations for protection.

Cost is a significant factor that needs improvement. Reducing the cost would make it more beneficial for all users. 

Additionally, integrating AI features that not only provide recommendations yet also implement them on behalf of the user would enhance the product.

I have been working with Trusted Advisor for over five years.

I find the solution to be exceptionally stable and it has never experienced downtime since it is managed by AWS.

Trusted Advisor is extremely scalable, making it ideal for large businesses, especially those requiring government or compliance-based applications. I rate its scalability ten out of ten.

The technical support is excellent, rated ten out of ten, however, it comes with an additional cost.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward, rated ten out of ten. It requires only a subscription purchase, as it is default deployed and enabled in my AWS account.

Pricing can be high. For small businesses, I rate the price as eight out of ten in terms of costliness. Trusted Advisor offers various packages, with the most comprehensive costing $15,000 per month.

New users without expertise should use Trusted Advisor as it provides significant insights greater than what even experts can deliver. 

Overall, I rate Trusted Advisor eight out of ten due to pricing concerns.

We have been using Amazon Inspector and Amazon Trusted Advisor for monitoring. These tools are especially useful for preventing cyberattacks on our systems. Trusted Advisor scans the complete infrastructure, providing a consolidated view of our account's systems. We use CloudWatch with Trusted Advisor to manage AWS resources through automated alerts.

Trusted Advisor scans the complete infrastructure within the account, providing a consolidated view of all services in use. 

It also covers all OWASP-related aspects of cybersecurity, allocating the criticality of each attack or vulnerability. 

Moreover, Trusted Advisor's scan results are accepted by external penetration testing and vulnerability testing personnel.

Trusted Advisor currently scans the whole system, including development, staging, and QA environments, which increases costs. It would be better if it could selectively scan only production systems. 

This change could economize the cost by up to 50%, as we don't need extensive scanning and security for non-production environments.

We have used Amazon Trusted Advisor for around three and a half to four years.

Trusted Advisor is highly stable and reliable. It can be scheduled to work during off-peak times to ensure production systems are not impacted. We have not experienced any failures; it has always been up and running.

It is highly scalable as it automatically scales up with any new servers or clouds associated with the account. However, it can be unnecessarily costly as it scans systems that don't require security checks, such as research or development environments.

AWS has improved its technical support, with user-friendly pop-ups and self-explanatory guidance. However, there is room for improvement as the interface is still evolving.

Positive

Trusted Advisor's initial setup process has become quite easy, allowing even non-technical individuals to complete it within three to four hours.

The cost of Trusted Advisor is reasonable, though it can be further economized by allowing selective scanning, focusing only on production systems, to avoid unnecessary costs associated with development environments.

I strongly recommend using Trusted Advisor due to its role in cybersecurity, providing cost-effective solutions compared to external companies. I generally rate it an eight out of ten. There is still room for improvement in terms of economizing costs and enhancing the user interface for non-technical users.

I am actually working with AWS. I am particularly strong in AWS. When I look at the product, I am using S3 buckets, Alexa, VPCs, Lambda, and AWS Trusted Advisor. I am using quite a number of services in AWS. I have been using Trusted Advisor for my AI, especially in terms of costs. 

Using AWS, I look at the storage of the objects that I store in the S3 bucket. I had videos and images, and I was using AWS for all these things. I needed to determine how long I should make a lifecycle plan to be cost-effective. 

I tried storing these particular things in the same bucket yet with different lifecycle plans. I considered whether I should use infrequent access and how long it should stay before transitioning. I use Trusted Advisor to try to be more cost-effective. We were a small group with four people.

The recommendation feature is really good. It helps me see the cost. I can ask: is this cost-effective for me if I have this infrastructure? How can I reduce it? 

With AWS IAM, when I had three people, including two DevOps and me, it helped in access management, assigning particular people to certain roles. I knew who was supposed to access what in Trusted Advisor. 

Additionally, the AWS dashboard is not bad. It gives an overview of recent changes and findings. The security check is the most important. Security is crucial to avoid things like SQL injections. 

The security check provides insight, ensuring the infrastructure is safe, without hackers or unauthorized access. Assigning specific roles to people is important, and in my opinion, the security check is the most important feature.

Maybe if Trusted Advisor could also help us with IP address issues and the status of our VPCs, it would be beneficial. Perhaps this feature exists, and I am just unaware of it.

I have been using Trusted Advisor for about four years.

Stability is okay. I have never had any issues while trying to scale it.

Of course, you need an AWS account. Search for Trusted Advisor in the AWS services tab. Once it appears, select services, then manage, and tap management and governance. This takes you to Trusted Advisor. From there, select manage Trusted Advisor on the left menu, and enable it. It is straightforward to use.

I have some knowledge of GCP, particularly in security and creating reliable platform infrastructure using virtual machines and databases. Most clients I have worked with were AWS, yet working with GCP clients wouldn't take much time.

I would recommend Trusted Advisor to others. AWS can easily show you how to scale, whether it will be cost-effective for you, and provide savings. It is also valuable for security and recommendations. I would definitely recommend it to developers. 

I would give it a ten out of ten. It has helped me a lot.

AWS gives baseline security hardening guidelines, which are provided by a trusted advisor. But it goes beyond security, offering advice on building, deployment, cost optimization, infrastructure optimization, and even detailed security optimization.

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.

Maybe adding more security rules would be great. It comes with around 20-25 baseline rules. If you want more, like 300-400 rules, you'd need to purchase Security Hub from AWS.

So, more built-in rules would be good.

I have been using it for three years now. It is a native solution from AWS itself.

It is a stable product. It's fully owned by AWS.

Anyone with AWS access can use it, but the security team typically uses it the most.

There are five to six end users using this solution. 

You don't even need to install it! It comes as a free feature with AWS, automatically enabled by default.

As long as you have a corporate AWS account, which most companies do. Personal accounts wouldn't have it, but any corporate account gets it for free.

It's a free feature from AWS. So it's bundled with a corporate account.

Focus on the critical alerts first, then move on to the lower ones. It's pretty straightforward.

Overall, I would rate it a solid nine out of ten. It's free, helpful, and saves AWS users a lot of work.

As I sit in Cloud Security Center, I have the responsibility for all workloads running on AWS. I use Trusted Advisor to gain visibility into the resources the project teams are using, and AWS gathers any vulnerabilities and recommendations across the governance spectrum that Trusted Advisor provides. I then contact the solution owners to ensure they close the gaps and implement measures to prevent breaches.

Trusted Advisor has helped our organisation gain insights into best practices across a number of important domains for us. It has help me maintain a holistic  view of our AWS platform and guided me to improve areas needing it. 

The cost-effectiveness of this solution is impressive, as is its security coverage. Trusted Advisor offers a comprehensive overview, which I then use as a starting point to explore detailed security issues via Security Hub or AWS Inspector. This integrated approach enables efficient resolution of our security concerns.

The paid version offers numerous controls, though some are still absent. It includes approximately 480 Advisor checks overall. Enhancing these checks would increase my reliance on Trusted Advisor before turning to more detailed services.

However, the integration between Trusted Advisor and Security Hub occasionally confuses as there are many overlapping AWS services and the same finding can be duplicated.

I have been using it since 2013, which is over ten years.

It is very stable. I have never experienced it going down, so I would give it a nine out of ten.

Trusted Advisor is designed to provide consistent and reliable insights into our  organization's AWS environment, offering us recommendations for improving stability, security, and cost efficiency. 

However, as with any software service, occasional issues may arise, but overall, the stability of Trusted Advisor is considered to be robust and dependable.

It scores a ten in scalability. It provides automated checks and recommendations based on best practices for utilizing AWS services, and it can adapt to the needs of various organizations, from small businesses to large enterprises. As the infrastructure and usage of AWS services grow, Trusted Advisor effectively scales to continue providing insights and recommendations for optimizing cost, security, performance, and fault tolerance. 

However, the cost also scales, which is something to consider.

I haven't had the need to use customer service, which is likely a positive indicator. I am adept at resolving issues on my own. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

Positive

The setup is very straight forward. 

Enabling AWS Trusted Advisor at the organization level involves a few additional steps but is still relatively manageable. When enabling it at the organization level, administrators typically need to access the AWS Organizations console to enable Trusted Advisor across all accounts within the organization. This process usually involves setting permissions and access controls to ensure that the appropriate users can view and act on the recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor.

Many people dont use the paid version, not wanting to pay for the full version, which is a shame. Setup is almost automatic and takes about half an hour. It is ClickOps—plug and play.

I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. It is highly functional and effective, but pricing and other considerations may prevent widespread adoption. While it plays a significant role in workload governance, there are similar offerings available.

The solution shows me a lot of cost optimization areas. It also shows me where to tighten my cloud’s security.

The cost optimization features are valuable. The product is easy to use. We can watch each metric and take corrective actions. It keeps fetching environmental information all the time. If someone makes any changes, we get updates from the tool. Even a person who does not have any idea of AWS can use the product.

The tenancy must be free for all metrics. However, it is free only for ten.

I have been using the solution for four to five years.

The tool is really stable.

It's a managed service from AWS. It’s always scalable.

The support is excellent.

We just have to enable it as a cloud service to use the solution.

We have saved more money than what the solution costs. We have saved more than 30% to 40% of the solution’s cost.

The pricing is average.

We chose AWS Trusted Advisor because we primarily use AWS. AWS Trusted Advisor is a native tool. It comes with AWS. It is better to use AWS Trusted Advisor than purchasing and integrating a different tool. I will definitely recommend the tool to others if they want recommendations for cost optimization and security postures. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We use AWS Trusted Advisor to optimize cost and the under-provision and over-provision of EBS volumes and EC2 instances. We recommend downsizing or upsizing the EBS volume configuration or EC2 instances. The solution helps us reduce and optimize the cost of upscaling or downscaling the AWS infrastructure.

AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool that we can use to optimize the AWS infrastructure cost. The solution provides security compliance by showing us the open ports.

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. It will only show the network and CPU utilization, and based on these two parameters, we cannot downsize the infra. We need metrics so that we can make a decision to upsize or downsize it.

I have been using AWS Trusted Advisor for more than two to three years.

AWS Trusted Advisor is a stable solution, and we haven't faced any issues with its stability.

The solution has good scalability.

The solution's technical support is good. They are more concerned about helping the customer so they won't get any problems.

Positive

Overall, I rate AWS Trusted Advisor an eight out of ten.

Whenever we deploy something or whenever we do some changes in the environment, we normally go in AWS Trusted Advisor and check whether any instances lying idle, any rightsizing we can do, whether we can reclaim any EBS volumes, or whether we can recommission any of the databases which are serving Zero IOPs, or whether there are any security-related loopholes in our entire environment. It gives all the checks related to performance issues and cost. It gives those checks.

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

We are new to AWS, so whenever we deploy anything, so we get Trusted Advisor help also. It is automated checks, so it's a single thing where we can get all the information. If any instance or any AWS volume is lying idle, the Trusted Advisor certainly pops up and it also gives us how much cost we can save by doing that particular action. Basically, it helps in reducing billing, and it helps in improving security.

The initial setup is easy.

It's been good so far. We haven't found any weak areas.

Whenever they suggest anything or any changes in the environment, we cannot click and simply implement those changes. We have to go and rectify everything and do the changes manually. Rather than that, if they can do some sort of automation implemented in the AWS Trusted Advisor, that would be ideal.

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

I've been using the solution for more than 12 months. 

The stability is good. It just works. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

It is a scalable solution. 

It's open to everyone who has access. That includes admin users and end users. We have around a thousand or more users on the solution currently.

It's used quite extensively. It's a part of AWS. However, if you have a Google or Azure cloud, it won't pick up anything on that. It's exclusively for AWS.

Technical support is good. We are satisfied with their level of assistance. 

We went for CloudHealth, which is one of the solutions for cost optimization. CloudHealth will make sense when you have multiple clouds in your environment. AWS is good, however, in our environment, only AWS is there, so we're using only AWS as a service rather than investing in CloudHealth, which is working across clouds.

It's straightforward to set up. Even if you go with your email ID to the AWS site and open your own email, or AWS account, you will get the Trusted Advisor basic setup. Once you have the pro license enabled, you will get the entire set. It's just a SaaS service. There is no implementation strategy, there is no deployment. It comes in-built into the AWS service. It takes no time at all.

It's in-built as an AWS product. We did not need help from outside consultants.

We do not see an ROI. It's cost-optimized.

I'm not familiar with the licensing costs. We are platinum partners. We get that licensing in-built.

We did not evaluate any other solutions previously.

There's not any version per se that we are on. If you go to the AWS console, they have the Trusted Advisor as a service.

I'd advise others to use the solution. Implementing it is straightforward. You have to just enable the full-fledged license and it just goes in your entire environment.

I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten. It's easy to use. The security, cost, optimization, reliability, and performance are great. If it had more automation, I'd rate it higher.