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AWS Trusted Advisorin AWS GovCloud (US)

An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment, Trusted Advisor provides real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.

How AWS Trusted Advisor Differs for AWS GovCloud (US)

  • Email notifications for Trusted Advisor check summaries aren't supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

  • The organizational view feature is currently not supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

  • For a list of supported checks in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, see Supported Trusted Advisor checks. You can also sign in to the Trusted Advisor console.

  • Email notifications for Trusted Advisor Priority recommendation summaries aren't supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

  • Not all checks are automatically refreshed. For checks not automatically refreshed, customers can manually refresh via the Console or API.

Supported Trusted Advisor checks

The following tables list the Trusted Advisor checks that are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the required support level.

Cost optimization

The following table lists the Trusted Advisor checks for cost optimization that are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Check Support level
Amazon EC2 Instances Stopped Business and Enterprise
Amazon ECR Repository Without Lifecycle Policy Configured Business and Enterprise
AWS Account Not Part of AWS Organizations Business and Enterprise
Amazon RDS Idle DB Instances Business and Enterprise
Amazon S3 Bucket Lifecycle Policy Configured Business and Enterprise
Amazon S3 version enabled buckets without lifecycle policies configured Business and Enterprise
Idle Load Balancers Business and Enterprise
Low Utilization Amazon EC2 Instances Business and Enterprise
Unassociated Elastic IP Addresses Business and Enterprise
Underutilized Amazon EBS Volumes Business and Enterprise

Fault tolerance

The following table lists the Trusted Advisor checks for fault tolerance that are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Check Support level
Amazon Aurora DB Instance Accessibility Business and Enterprise
Amazon DynamoDB Table Not Included in Backup Plan Business and Enterprise
Amazon EBS Not Included in AWS Backup Plan Business and Enterprise
Amazon EBS Snapshots Business and Enterprise
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Group does not have ELB Health check Enabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon EC2 Availability Zone Balance Business and Enterprise
Amazon EC2 Detailed Monitoring Not Enabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon ECS service using a single AZ Business and Enterprise
Amazon ECS Multi-AZ placement strategy Business and Enterprise
Amazon ElastiCache Multi-AZ Clusters Business and Enterprise
Amazon ElastiCache Redis clusters Automatic Backup Business and Enterprise
AWS Lambda Functions without a dead-letter queue configured Business and Enterprise
Amazon MemoryDB Multi-AZ Clusters Business and Enterprise
Amazon Redshift cluster automated snapshots Business and Enterprise
Amazon RDS not in AWS Backup Plan Business and Enterprise
Amazon RDS Backups Business and Enterprise
Amazon RDS DB Instance Enhanced Monitoring Not Enabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Business and Enterprise
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Standby Instance Not Enabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon S3 Bucket Logging Business and Enterprise
Amazon S3 Bucket Replication Not Enabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon S3 Bucket Versioning Business and Enterprise
Auto Scaling Group Resources Business and Enterprise
AWS Site-to-Site VPN has at least one Tunnel in DOWN Status Business and Enterprise
Auto Scaling Group Health Check Business and Enterprise
ELB Connection Draining Business and Enterprise
ELB Cross-Zone Load Balancing Business and Enterprise
Load Balancer Optimization Business and Enterprise
VPN Tunnel Redundancy Business and Enterprise
ActiveMQ Availability Zone Redundancy Business and Enterprise
RabbitMQ Availability Zone Redundancy Business and Enterprise

Operational Excellence

The following table lists the Trusted Advisor checks for operational excellence that are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Check Support level
Amazon API Gateway Not Logging Execution Logs Business and Enterprise
Amazon API Gateway REST APIs Without X-Ray Tracing Enabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon EC2 Instance Not Managed by AWS Systems Manager Business and Enterprise
Amazon ECR Repository With Tag Immutability Disabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon ECS clusters with Container Insights disabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon S3 does not have Event Notifications enabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon VPC Without Flow Logs Business and Enterprise
AWS CloudFormation Stack Notification Business and Enterprise
AWS CloudTrail data events logging for objects in an S3 bucket Business and Enterprise
AWS CodeBuild Project Logging Business and Enterprise
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Enhanced Health Reporting Is Not Configured Business and Enterprise
AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Managed Platform Updates disabled Business and Enterprise
AWS Fargate platform version is not latest Business and Enterprise
AWS Systems Manager State Manager Association in Non-compliant Status Business and Enterprise
Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers Without Access Logs Enabled Business and Enterprise
CloudTrail trails is not configured with Amazon CloudWatch Logs Business and Enterprise
Elastic Load Balancing Deletion Protection Not Enabled for Load Balancers Business and Enterprise
RDS Cluster Deletion Protection Check Business and Enterprise
RDS DB Instance Automatic Minor Version Upgrade Check Business and Enterprise

Performance

The following table lists the Trusted Advisor checks for performance that are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Check Support level
Amazon DynamoDB Auto Scaling Not Enabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon EBS Optimization Not Enabled Business and Enterprise
Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS (SSD) Volume Attachment Configuration Business and Enterprise
Amazon EC2 to EBS Throughput Optimization Business and Enterprise
Amazon EC2 Virtualization Type is Paravirtual Business and Enterprise
High Utilization Amazon EC2 Instances Business and Enterprise
Large Number of EC2 Security Group Rules Applied to an Instance Business and Enterprise
Large Number of Rules in an EC2 Security Group Business and Enterprise
Overutilized Amazon EBS Magnetic Volumes Business and Enterprise
AWS Lambda Functions without Concurrency Limit configured Business and Enterprise

Security

The following table lists the Trusted Advisor checks for security that are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Check Support level
Amazon CloudWatch Log Group retention period less than 365 days All support levels
Amazon EBS Public Snapshots All support levels
Amazon RDS Security Group Access Risk Business and Enterprise
Amazon RDS Public Snapshots All support levels
Amazon S3 Bucket Permissions All support levels
AWS Backup Vault Without Resource-Based Policy to Prevent Deletion of Recovery Points Business and Enterprise
AWS CloudTrail Logging Business and Enterprise
ELB Security Groups Business and Enterprise
ELB Listener Security Business and Enterprise
IAM Access Key Rotation All support levels
IAM Use All support levels
IAM Password Policy Business and Enterprise
Security Groups – Specific Ports Unrestricted All support levels
Security Groups – Unrestricted Access Business and Enterprise

Service quotas

The following table lists the checks for Trusted Advisor service quotas, formerly known as limits, that are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Check Support level
Amazon DynamoDB Throughput All support levels
Auto Scaling Groups All support levels
Auto Scaling Launch Configurations All support levels
AWS CloudFormation Stacks All support levels
DynamoDB Read Capacity All support levels
DynamoDB Write Capacity All support levels
EBS Active Snapshots All support levels
EBS Cold HDD (sc1) Volume Storage All support levels
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) Volume Storage All support levels
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) Volume Storage All support levels
EBS Magnetic (standard) Volume Storage All support levels
EBS Provisioned IOPS (SSD) Volume Aggregate IOPS All support levels
EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) Volume Storage All support levels
EBS Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) Volume Storage All support levels
EC2 Reserved Instance Leases All support levels
ELB Classic Load Balancers All support levels
ELB Network Load Balancers All support levels
ELB Application Load Balancers All support levels
IAM Group All support levels
IAM Instance Profiles All support levels
IAM Policies All support levels
IAM Roles All support levels
IAM Server Certificates All support levels
IAM Users All support levels
Kinesis Shards per Region All support levels
RDS Cluster Parameter Groups All support levels
RDS Cluster Roles All support levels
RDS Clusters All support levels
RDS DB Instances All support levels
RDS DB Parameter Groups All support levels
RDS DB Security Groups All support levels
RDS DB Manual Snapshots All support levels
RDS Event Subscriptions All support levels
RDS Max Auths per Security Group All support levels
RDS Option Groups All support levels
RDS Read Replicas per Master All support levels
RDS Reserved Instances All support levels
RDS Subnet Groups All support levels
RDS Subnets per Subnet Group All support levels
RDS Total Storage Quota All support levels
VPC All support levels
VPC Elastic IP Address All support levels
VPC Internet Gateways All support levels

Documentation for AWS Trusted Advisor

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Export-controlled content

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