Hello and welcome to this course which will look at how you can use AWS Trusted Advisor to help you follow and implement some best practices and recommendations across your AWS environment with your organization.

Before we start I’d like to introduce myself, my name is Stuart Scott, and I am the AWS content and security lead here at Cloud Academy.  Feel free to connect with me to ask any questions using the details shown on the screen, alternatively you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question.

This course has been designed for those who might be in one of the following roles:

• Security Professionals & Security Auditors
• Systems Engineers and Administrators
• Compliance Managers
• Anyone looking to learn to become AWS certified

There are a number of learning objectives to this course, you will understand:

• The purpose and benefits of Trusted Advisor
• How to navigate the Trusted Advisor Console
• How to use Trusted Advisor to optimize your AWS resources and account
• How to take actionable steps with Trusted Advisor to improve your AWS infrastructure

As a prerequisite to this course, I recommend that you have a basic understanding of some of the core services, such as IAM.  This is because AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations and best practices across a range of other AWS services.

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