Now, you might be thinking that AWS Trusted Advisor is a great tool and you'll probably want to start using it right away if you don't already. However, the service is not freely available to everyone. The amount of AWS Trusted Advisor checks that you can use and access is dependent on your support plan with AWS – understanding this is important.
Each of the support plans offers different features, such as the following:
- Best practices
- Technical support
- Architecture support
- Proactive guidance
- Programmatic case management
- Account assistance
- Health status and notifications
For a full list of AWS support plans and all of their features and what is included with each plan, please see https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/plans/home?#/.
Access to Trusted Advisor falls under the best practices feature set, and as a result, the support plans for Trusted Advisor are set out as follows:
 As you can see,...