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AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates accounts against AWS-maintained checks and recommendations across cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, service limits and operational excellence, with access and refresh behavior depending on the support plan.

Explore pricing models, common use cases, infrastructure support, and the AWS services that commonly work with AWS Trusted Advisor.

AWS Trusted Advisor pricing and cost programs

Pricing model: Support-plan entitlement

On-Demand
Not applicable
Reserved Instances or reserved capacity
Not applicable
Savings Plans
Not applicable
Spot
Not applicable

Billing dimensions: Support plan · Monthly AWS charges · Account scope

Programs and modes: Basic Support checks · Business Support+ · Enterprise Support · Unified Operations

Trusted Advisor access depends on the current AWS Support plan; the linked Support pricing page is authoritative.

Free Tier: Not applicable — verify current offers

Pricing reviewed 2026-07-25. Reviewed against the linked official AWS pricing page. Recheck regional rates and program terms before purchase.

Official AWS pricing

Official AWS sources reviewed 2026-07-21.

Why implement AWS Trusted Advisor?

  • Surfaces account-specific AWS recommendations without building a separate rules engine for every included check.
  • Covers multiple operational pillars and provides console findings, organizational views, notifications, APIs and integrations according to support entitlement.
  • Helps identify idle spend, quota exposure, resilience gaps, security settings and performance opportunities for human review.

How to implement AWS Trusted Advisor

  1. Confirm the current support plan, included checks, refresh cadence, API and organization-view entitlement, delegated roles, accounts, Regions, notification targets and relationship to Security Hub, Config and cost tools.
  2. Enable organizational reporting where entitled, export or integrate findings, classify them by evidence, exposure, effort and owner, and create remediation workflows with change review and workload validation.
  3. Refresh after changes, verify that findings clear for the intended reason, track age and recurring recommendations, document exclusions with expiry, and compare check coverage with the wider Well-Architected and operational-control program.

AWS Trusted Advisor best practices

  • Treat findings as recommendations to validate in workload context, not automatic proof of a defect; inspect the exact check definition and current resource state before changing production.
  • Understand support-tier limits and refresh timing: some checks, APIs and organizational capabilities require Business Support or higher, and data may not represent changes immediately.
  • Assign owners and deadlines, integrate high-value findings into normal work tracking, require a reason and review date for exclusions, and verify remediation rather than merely suppressing the item.

AWS Trusted Advisor use cases and server impact

  • Cost and idle-resource reviews
  • Quota and fault-tolerance checks
  • Security and operational recommendation backlogs

Replaces some custom best-practice scanners and reporting jobs, while support entitlement, finding validation, prioritization, change safety, exclusions, coverage gaps, and remediation ownership remain yours.

Official implementation resources

Commonly paired AWS services