# Amazon Trusted Advisor
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Trusted Advisor draws upon best practices learned from serving hundreds of thousands of Amazon customers. Trusted Advisor inspects your Amazon environment, and then makes recommendations when opportunities exist to save money, improve system availability and performance, or help close security gaps. 

If you have a Basic or Developer Support plan, you can use the Trusted Advisor console to access all checks in the Service Limits category and [selected checks](trusted-advisor-check-reference.md) in the Security and Fault tolerance categories. Automatic check updates aren't available in the Basic and Developer Support plans. You must manually refresh Trusted Advisor checks in the Security category. To manually refresh a check, do the following:

1. Sign in to the Trusted Advisor console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/trustedadvisor/home](https://console.amazonaws.cn/trustedadvisor/home).

1. Select the **Refresh** button on the check that you want to refresh.

If you have a Amazon Business Support\+, Amazon Enterprise Support, or Amazon Unified Operations plan, you can use the Trusted Advisor console and the [Amazon Trusted Advisor API](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/awssupport/latest/user/get-started-with-aws-trusted-advisor-api.html) to access all Trusted Advisor checks. You also can use Amazon CloudWatch Events to monitor the status of Trusted Advisor checks. For more information, see [Monitoring Amazon Trusted Advisor check results with Amazon EventBridge](cloudwatch-events-ta.md). 

You can access Trusted Advisor in the Amazon Web Services Management Console. For more information about controlling access to the Trusted Advisor console, see [Manage access to Amazon Trusted Advisor](security-trusted-advisor.md).

For more information, see [Trusted Advisor](http://www.amazonaws.cn/support/trustedadvisor/).

**Topics**
+ [Get started with Trusted Advisor Recommendations](get-started-with-aws-trusted-advisor.md)
+ [Get started with the Trusted Advisor API](get-started-with-aws-trusted-advisor-api.md)
+ [Using Trusted Advisor as a web service](trustedadvisor.md)
+ [Organizational view for Amazon Trusted Advisor](organizational-view.md)
+ [View Amazon Trusted Advisor checks powered by Amazon Config](aws-config-integration-with-ta.md)
+ [Viewing Amazon Security Hub CSPM controls in Amazon Trusted Advisor](security-hub-controls-with-trusted-advisor.md)
+ [Opt in Amazon Compute Optimizer for Trusted Advisor checks](compute-optimizer-with-trusted-advisor.md)
+ [Get started with Amazon Trusted Advisor Priority](trusted-advisor-priority.md)
+ [Amazon Trusted Advisor check reference](trusted-advisor-check-reference.md)
+ [Change log for Amazon Trusted Advisor](aws-trusted-advisor-change-log.md)