Change log for Amazon Trusted Advisor
See the following topic for recent changes to Trusted Advisor checks.
Note
If you use the Trusted Advisor console or the Amazon Web Services Support API, checks that were removed won't appear in check results. If you use any of the removed checks such as specifying the check ID in an Amazon Web Services Support API operation or your code, you must remove these checks to avoid API call errors.
For more information about the available checks, see the Amazon 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:
IAM Use
ELB Cross-Zone Load Balancing
Overutilized Amazon EBS Magnetic Volumes
Large Number of EC2 Security Group Rules Applied to an Instance
Large Number of Rules in an EC2 Security Group
Trusted Advisor added 1 new security check on May 15, 2024:
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Amazon S3 Server Access Logs Enabled
For more information, see the Amazon Trusted Advisor check reference.
Removed fault tolerance checks
Trusted Advisor deprecated 3 Fault Tolerance check on April 25, 2024:
Amazon Direct Connect Connection Redundancy
Amazon Direct Connect Location Redundancy
Amazon Direct Connect Virtual Interface Redundancy
For more information, see the Amazon Trusted Advisor check reference.
New fault tolerance check
Trusted Advisor added 1 Fault Tolerance check on February 29, 2024:
NLB - Internet-facing resource in private subnet
For more information, see the Amazon 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:
Added Amazon Resilience Hub Application Component check
Updated Amazon Lambda VPC-enabled Functions without Multi-AZ Redundancy
Updated Amazon Lambda Functions Using Deprecated Runtimes
For more information, see the Amazon Trusted Advisor check reference.
New fault tolerance check
Trusted Advisor added 1 Fault Tolerance check on January 31, 2024:
Amazon Direct Connect Location Resiliency
For more information, see the Amazon Trusted Advisor check reference.
Updated fault tolerance check
Trusted Advisor amended 1 Fault Tolerance check on January 08, 2024:
Amazon RDS innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit parameter is not 1
For more information, see the Amazon Trusted Advisor check reference.
Updated security check
Trusted Advisor amended 1 Security check on December 21, 2023:
Amazon Lambda Functions Using Deprecated Runtimes
For more information, see the Amazon 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:
Amazon EFS clients not using data-in-transit encryption
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Amazon Aurora DB cluster under-provisioned for read workload
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Amazon RDS instance under-provisioned for system capacity
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Amazon EC2 instances with Ubuntu LTS end of standard support
For more information, see the Amazon Trusted Advisor check reference.
New security check
Trusted Advisor added 1 new Security check on December 15, 2023:
Amazon Route 53 mismatching CNAME records pointing directly to S3 buckets
For more information, see the Amazon 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:
Amazon DocumentDB Single-AZ clusters
Amazon S3 Incomplete Multipart Upload Abort Configuration
Amazon ECS AmazonLogs driver in blocking mode
For more information, see the Amazon Trusted Advisor check reference.
Trusted Advisor check removal
Check name | Check category | Check ID |
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EBS volumes should be attached to EC2 instances |
Security |
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S3 buckets should have server-side encryption enabled |
Security |
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CloudFront distributions should have origin access identity enabled |
Security |
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Updates to the Trusted Advisor integration with Amazon Security Hub
Trusted Advisor made the following update on November 17, 2022.
If you disable Security Hub or Amazon Config for an Amazon Web Services Region, Trusted Advisor now removes your control findings for that Amazon Web Services 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:
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 Amazon Web Services 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 Amazon Web Services Support API as usual.
For more information, see Get started with Trusted Advisor Recommendations.
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 Amazon Foundational Security Best Practices security standard except for controls in the Category: Recover > Resilience. For more information, see Viewing Amazon Security Hub controls in Amazon Trusted Advisor.
For a list of supported controls, see Amazon Foundational Security Best Practices controls in the Amazon Security Hub User Guide.
Added checks from Amazon Compute Optimizer
Trusted Advisor added the following checks on May 4, 2022.
Check name | Check category | Check ID |
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Amazon EBS over-provisioned volumes |
Cost optimization |
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Amazon EBS under-provisioned volumes |
Performance |
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Amazon Lambda over-provisioned functions for memory size |
Cost optimization |
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Amazon Lambda under-provisioned functions for memory size |
Performance |
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You must opt in your Amazon Web Services account for Compute Optimizer so that these checks can receive data from your Lambda and Amazon EBS resources. For more information, see Opt in Amazon Compute Optimizer for Trusted Advisor checks.
Updated checks for Amazon Direct Connect
Trusted Advisor updated the following checks on March 29, 2022.
Check name | Check category | Check ID |
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Amazon Direct Connect Connection Redundancy |
Fault tolerance |
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Amazon Direct Connect Location Redundancy |
Fault tolerance |
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Amazon Direct Connect Virtual Interface Redundancy |
Fault tolerance |
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The value for the Region column now shows the Amazon Web Services Region code instead of the full name. For example, resources in US East (N. Virginia) will now have the
us-east-1
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The value for the Time Stamp column now appears in the RFC 3339 format, such as
2022-03-30T01:02:27.000Z
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Resources that don't have any detected problems will now appear in the check table. These resources will have a check mark icon ( ) next to them.
Previously, only resources that Trusted Advisor recommended that you investigate appeared in the table. These resources have a warning icon ( ) next to them.
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.
Check name | Check category | Check ID |
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Amazon OpenSearch Service Reserved Instance Optimization |
Cost optimization |
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Note
If you use Trusted Advisor for Amazon CloudWatch metrics, the metric name for this check is also updated. For more information, see Creating Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor Amazon Trusted Advisor metrics.
Added checks for Amazon Elastic Block Store volume storage
Trusted Advisor added the following checks on June 8, 2021.
Check name | Check category | Check ID |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) Volume Storage |
Service limits |
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Added checks for Amazon Lambda
Trusted Advisor added the following checks on March 8, 2021.
Check name | Check category | Check ID |
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Amazon Lambda Functions with Excessive Timeouts |
Cost optimization |
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Amazon Lambda Functions with High Error Rates |
Cost optimization |
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Amazon Lambda Functions Using Deprecated Runtimes |
Security |
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Amazon Lambda VPC-enabled Functions without Multi-AZ Redundancy |
Fault tolerance |
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For more information about how to use these checks with Lambda, see Example Amazon Trusted Advisor workflow to view recommendations in the Amazon Lambda Developer Guide.
Trusted Advisor check removal
Trusted Advisor removed the following check for the China (Beijing) Region on March 8, 2021.
Check name | Check category | Check ID |
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EC2 Elastic IP Addresses |
Service limits |
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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.
Note
If you use Trusted Advisor for Amazon CloudWatch metrics, the metric names for these five checks are also updated. For more information, see Creating Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor Amazon Trusted Advisor metrics.
Check name | Check category | Check ID | Updated CloudWatch metric for ServiceLimit |
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EBS Cold HDD (sc1) Volume Storage |
Service limits |
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Cold HDD (sc1) volume storage (TiB) |
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) Volume Storage |
Service limits |
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General Purpose SSD (gp2) volume storage (TiB) |
EBS Magnetic (standard) Volume Storage |
Service limits |
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Magnetic (standard) volume storage (TiB) |
EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1) Volume Storage |
Service limits |
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Provisioned IOPS (SSD) storage (TiB) |
EBS Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) Volume Storage |
Service limits |
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Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) volume storage (TiB) |
Trusted Advisor check removal
Note
Trusted Advisor removed the following checks on November 18, 2020.
Checks removed on November 18, 2020 | Check category | Check ID |
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EC2Config Service for EC2 Windows Instances |
Fault tolerance |
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ENA Driver Version for EC2 Windows Instances |
Fault tolerance |
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NVMe Driver Version for EC2 Windows Instances |
Fault tolerance |
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PV Driver Version for EC2 Windows Instances |
Fault tolerance |
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EBS Active Volumes |
Service limits |
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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 Amazon 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.
Check name | Check category | Check ID |
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Service Limits |
Performance |
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