Getting Started

Automated Cloud Advisor

Automated Cloud Advisor is cloud custodian-like that uses Trusted Advisor to periodically gather cost-related data associated to your AWS accounts.

Scope

Automated Cloud Advisor helps with cost optimization by automating the collection of data on AWS resources that are under-utilized, and providing a useful display for this data.

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Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisor scans all of your AWS resources and identifies resources based on the following categories.

  • Cost Optimization - Identify low utilized resources.
    • Example: Email resource owners, flag or decommission resources.
  • Performance - Identify resources that can be optimized.
    • Example: Cloudfront is misconfigured and too many redirects.
  • Security - Identify security vulnerabilities.
    • Example: SGs are wide open, Some S3 buckets have public access.
  • Fault Tolerance - Identify data storage that has not been backed up
    • Example: Be compliant with disaster recovery strategies.
  • Service Limit - Identify when near maxing service limits.
    • Example: When S3 buckets reach the max limit of 1000.

Automated Cloud Advisor uses the Cost Optimization data and provides insight via relevant widgets in a Kibana dashboard.

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