AWS Trusted Advisor Expands Functionality With New Best Practice Checks

Posted on: Jan 18, 2019

AWS Trusted Advisor is an application that draws upon best practices learned from AWS’ aggregated operational history of serving millions of AWS customers. Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system performance, and closing security gaps.

Recently, AWS Trusted Advisor has released nine new checks to help keep you operating efficiently, securely, and up-to-date with AWS best practices.

  • DynamoDB Read Capacity: Checks for usage that is more than 80% of the DynamoDB Provisioned Throughput Limit for Reads per Account.
  • DynamoDB Write Capacity: Checks for usage that is more than 80% of the DynamoDB Provisioned Throughput Limit for Writes per Account.
  • Route53 Hosted Zones: Checks for usage that is more than 80% of the Route 53 Hosted Zones Limit per account.
  • Route53 Max Health Checks: Checks for usage that is more than 80% of the Route 53 Health Checks Limit per account.
  • Route53 Reusable Delegation Sets: Checks for usage that is more than 80% of the Route 53 Reusable Delegation Sets Limit per account.
  • Route53 Traffic Policies: Checks for usage that is more than 80% of the Route 53 Traffic Policies Limit per account.
  • Route53 Traffic Policy Instances: Checks for usage that is more than 80% of the Route 53 Traffic Policy Instances Limit per account.
  • ENA Driver Version for EC2 Windows Instances: Checks the version of the ENA driver for Amazon EC2 Windows instances, and then alerts you if the driver (a) is deprecated and no longer supported; (b) is deprecated with identified issues; or (c) has an available upgrade.
  • NVMe Driver Version for EC2 Windows Instances: Checks the version of the NVMe driver for Amazon EC2 Windows instances, and then alerts you if the driver (a) is deprecated and no longer supported; (b) is deprecated with identified issues; or (c) has an available upgrade.

AWS strives to continuously add more checks to allow you to ensure operational health and optimal performance. For a full set of Trusted Advisor Best Practice Checks, click here.