Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor

See the following topic for recent changes to Trusted Advisor checks.

For more information about the available checks, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

New check: Amazon RDS Continuous Backup Not Enabled

Trusted Advisor added the following check on December 23, 2024.

Checks if an Amazon RDS instance is enabled with automated backups using Amazon RDS or with continuous backups of AWS Backup. Continuous backups reduce the risk of unexpected data loss and allow for point-in-time recovery.

For more information, see Amazon RDS Continuous Backup Not Enabled.

New check: AWS CloudTrail Management Events Logging

Trusted Advisor added the following check on December 23, 2024.

Checks your use of AWS CloudTrail.

For more information, see AWS CloudTrail Management Event Logging.

Updated the Auto Scaling Group Resources check

Trusted Advisor updated the following check on December 23, 2024.

The description of this check is updated to include launch configurations and launch templates.

A new alert critera, Red: A launch template is associated with a deleted Amazon Machine Image (AMI). was added.

For more information, see Auto Scaling Group Resources.

Updated the IAM Access Analyzer External Access check

Trusted Advisor updated the following check on December 23, 2024.

The description of this check is updated to indicate that it analyzes IAM access at the account level. For more information, see IAM Access Analyzer External Access.

Added 1 new check

Trusted Advisor added 1 new check on November 22, 2024:

Updated 3 checks

Trusted Advisor updated 3 checks on November 7, 2024:

Added 4 checks

Trusted Advisor added 4 new checks on October 11, 2024:

Updated 3 checks

Trusted Advisor updated 3 checks on October 2, 2024:

Added 9 new checks

Trusted Advisor added 9 new checks on August 23, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Updated 1 Security check and added 1 Security check

Trusted Advisor updated 1 Operational Excellence checks on August 22, 2024:

Trusted Advisor added 1 Security checks on August 22, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Updated 6 Security checks

Trusted Advisor updated 6 Security checks on August 20, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Updated 1 fault tolerance checks

Trusted Advisor updated the 1 fault tolerance check and 1 security on August 12, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Updated 9 checks

Trusted Advisor updated the 9 checks on July 21, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Removed 5 checks and added 1 check

Trusted Advisor deprecated 3 Fault Tolerance checks, 1 Perfomance check, and 1 Security check on May 15, 2024:

Trusted Advisor added 1 new security check on May 15, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Removed fault tolerance checks

Trusted Advisor deprecated 3 Fault Tolerance check on April 25, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

New fault tolerance check

Trusted Advisor added 1 Fault Tolerance check on February 29, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Updated fault tolerance and security checks

Trusted Advisor added 1 new Fault Tolerance check and amended 1 existing Fault tolerance and 1 Security check on March 28 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

New fault tolerance check

Trusted Advisor added 1 Fault Tolerance check on January 31, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Updated fault tolerance check

Trusted Advisor amended 1 Fault Tolerance check on January 08, 2024:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Updated security check

Trusted Advisor amended 1 Security check on December 21, 2023:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

New security and performance checks

Trusted Advisor added 2 new Security checks and 2 new Performance checks on December 20, 2023:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

New security check

Trusted Advisor added 1 new Security check on December 15, 2023:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

New fault tolerance and cost optimization checks

Trusted Advisor added 2 new Fault Tolerance checks and 1 new Cost Optimization check on December 07, 2023:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

New fault tolerance checks

Trusted Advisor added 3 new fault tolerance checks on November 17, 2023:

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

New checks for Amazon RDS

Trusted Advisor added 37 new checks for Amazon RDS on November 15, 2023.

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

New AWS Trusted Advisor API

AWS Trusted Advisor introduces new APIs to enable you to programmatically access Trusted Advisor best practice checks, recommendations, and prioritized recommendations. Trusted Advisor APIs enable you to programmatically integrate Trusted Advisor with your preferred operational tool to automate and optimize your workloads at scale. Available to Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support customers, the new APIs provide access to Trusted Advisor recommendations for your account or all the linked accounts within a payer account. Enterprise Support customers with access to management or delegated administrator accounts can additionally programmatically retrieve prioritized recommendations across their organization.

The new Trusted Advisor APIs will replace the 3 functionalities previously offered through AWS Support API (SAPI). SAPI will continue to offer case and other support information.

Trusted Advisor APIs are generally available in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Ireland) Regions.

To learn more, please visit the AWS Trusted Advisor API page.

Trusted Advisor check removal

Trusted Advisor removed the following checks on November 9, 2023.

Integration of AWS Config checks into Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisor added 64 new checks powered by AWS Config on October 30, 2023.

For more information, see the View AWS Trusted Advisor checks powered by AWS Config.

New fault tolerance checks

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on October 12, 2023.

For more information, see the Fault tolerance category.

New service limits check

Trusted Advisor added the following check on August 17, 2023.

For more information, see the Service limits category.

New fault tolerance check

Trusted Advisor added the following check on August 3, 2023.

For more information, see the Fault tolerance category.

New fault tolerance and performance checks

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on June 1, 2023.

For more information, see the Fault tolerance category and Performance category.

New fault tolerance checks

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on May 16, 2023.

For more information, see the Fault tolerance category.

New fault tolerance checks

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on April 27, 2023.

For more information, see the Fault tolerance category.

Region Expansion of Amazon ECS Fault Tolerance Checks

Trusted Advisor expanded the following checks into additional regions on April 27, 2023. Trusted Advisor checks for Amazon ECS are now available in all regions where Amazon ECS is generally available.

Regions expanded into include Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE).

New fault tolerance checks

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on March 30, 2023.

For more information, see the Fault tolerance category.

New fault tolerance checks

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on December 15, 2022.

To receive results in Trusted Advisor for your AWS CloudHSM, ElastiCache, and MemoryDB clusters, you must have clusters in your Availability Zones. For more information, see the following documentation:

Trusted Advisor updated the following check information on December 15, 2022.

For more information, see the Fault tolerance category.

Updates to the Trusted Advisor integration with AWS Security Hub

Trusted Advisor made the following update on November 17, 2022.

If you disable Security Hub or AWS Config for an AWS Region, Trusted Advisor now removes your control findings for that AWS Region within 7-9 days. Previously, the time frame to remove your Security Hub data from Trusted Advisor was 90 days.

For more information, see the following sections in the Troubleshooting topic:

New fault tolerance checks for AWS Resilience Hub

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on November 17, 2022.

You can use these checks to view the latest resilience policy status and resilience score for your applications. Resilience Hub provides you with a central place to define, track, and manage the resiliency and availability of your applications.

To receive results in Trusted Advisor for your Resilience Hub applications, you must deploy an AWS application and use Resilience Hub to track the resiliency posture of the application. For more information, see the AWS Resilience Hub User Guide.

To receive results in Trusted Advisor for your ElastiCache and MemoryDB clusters, you must have clusters in your Availability Zones. For more information, see the following documentation:

Amazon MemoryDB Developer Guide

For more information, see the Fault tolerance category.

Update to the Trusted Advisor console

Trusted Advisor added the following change on November 16, 2022.

The Trusted Advisor Dashboard in the console is now Trusted Advisor Recommendations. The Trusted Advisor Recommendations page still shows the check results and the available checks for each category for your AWS account.

This name change only updates the Trusted Advisor console. You can continue to use the Trusted Advisor console and the Trusted Advisor operations in the Support API as usual.

For more information, see Get started with Trusted Advisor Recommendations.

New checks for Amazon EC2

Trusted Advisor added the following check on September 1, 2022.

For more information, see the Security category.

Added Security Hub checks to Trusted Advisor

As of June 23, 2022, Trusted Advisor only supports Security Hub controls available through April 7, 2022. This release supports all controls in the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices security standard except for controls in the Category: Recover > Resilience. For more information, see Viewing AWS Security Hub controls in AWS Trusted Advisor.

For a list of supported controls, see AWS Foundational Security Best Practices controls in the AWS Security Hub User Guide.

Added checks from AWS Compute Optimizer

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on May 4, 2022.

You must opt in your AWS account for Compute Optimizer so that these checks can receive data from your Lambda and Amazon EBS resources. For more information, see Opt in AWS Compute Optimizer for Trusted Advisor checks.

Updates to the Exposed Access Keys check

Trusted Advisor updated the following check on April 25, 2022.

Trusted Advisor now refreshes this check for you automatically. This check can't be refreshed manually from the Trusted Advisor console or the AWS Support API. If your application or code refreshes this check for your AWS account, we recommend that you update it to no longer refresh this check. Otherwise, you will receive the InvalidParameterValue error.

Any access keys that you excluded before this update will no longer be excluded and will appear as affected resources. You can't exclude access keys from your check results. For more information, see Exposed Access Keys.

Updated checks for AWS Direct Connect

Trusted Advisor updated the following checks on March 29, 2022.

AWS Security Hub controls added to the AWS Trusted Advisor console

AWS Trusted Advisor added 111 Security Hub controls to the Security category on January 18, 2022.

You can view your findings for Security Hub controls from the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices security standard. This integration doesn't include controls that have the Category: Recover > Resilience.

For more information about this feature, see Viewing AWS Security Hub controls in AWS Trusted Advisor.

New checks for Amazon EC2 and AWS Well-Architected

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on December 20, 2021.

For more information, see the AWS Trusted Advisor check reference.

Updated check name for Amazon OpenSearch Service

Trusted Advisor updated the name for the Amazon OpenSearch Service Reserved Instance Optimization check on September 8, 2021.

The check recommendations, category, and ID are the same.

Added checks for Amazon Elastic Block Store volume storage

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on June 8, 2021.

Added checks for AWS Lambda

Trusted Advisor added the following checks on March 8, 2021.

For more information about how to use these checks with Lambda, see Example AWS Trusted Advisor workflow to view recommendations in the AWS Lambda Developer Guide.

Trusted Advisor check removal

Trusted Advisor removed the following check for the AWS GovCloud (US) Region on March 8, 2021.

Updated checks for Amazon Elastic Block Store

Trusted Advisor updated the unit of Amazon EBS volume from gibibyte (GiB) to tebibyte (TiB) for the following checks on March 5, 2021.

Trusted Advisor check removal

Amazon Elastic Block Store no longer has a limit on the number of volumes that you can provision.

You can monitor your Amazon EC2 instances and verify they are up to date by using AWS Systems Manager Distributor, other third-party tools, or write your own scripts to return driver information for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

Trusted Advisor check removal

Trusted Advisor removed the following check on February 18, 2020.