AWS History and Timeline regarding AWS Trusted Advisor - Overview, Functions, Features, Summary of Updates, and Introduction
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IAM Use, usage requirements such as availability with the Business and Enterprise plans, and the number of checks. In the AWS Support User Guide on October 7, 2026, the console screen that shows check results is called Trusted Advisor Recommendations, and the usage requirements for all checks are written with the names of the three plans announced on December 2, 2025. However, a single source does not tell you from which point in time the names, numbers, and usage requirements in your runbooks come. Furthermore, on October 1, 2026, the preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent was announced, and the announcement described the Well-Architected Agent as the next-gen evolution of Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool.Trusted Advisor was initially released on January 30, 2012, as a feature for AWS Premium Support Gold and Platinum customers, offering eight initial checks. An article published on the AWS News Blog on the same day referred to this as beta testing. The AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard was released on June 13, 2012, and on July 31, 2014, four checks were opened to all customers; in the same year, Trusted Advisor became available in the AWS Management Console. On November 18, 2016, it integrated with CloudWatch Events, and organizational view, which shows the accounts of an AWS Organizations organization together, was announced in What's New on November 17, 2020 (the User Guide's Document history has an entry for it on July 17, 2020). From December 20, 2021, through 2025, the results from AWS Well-Architected, AWS Security Hub, AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Resilience Hub, AWS Config, and AWS Cost Optimization Hub were ingested as Trusted Advisor checks. In 2022, Trusted Advisor Priority was added, and on November 16, 2022, the Trusted Advisor Dashboard in the console was renamed to Trusted Advisor Recommendations. A new Trusted Advisor API was released on November 17, 2023, and from 2024 to 2026, checks continued to be deprecated.
This article presents a timeline that lists this history under the names used by the sources of each day. It aims to answer two questions. The first is from which point in time the check names, check counts, and usage requirements in your runbooks come, and what they correspond to in Trusted Advisor today. The second is what the Well-Architected Agent of October 1, 2026, is to Trusted Advisor, and what AWS sources say and do not say about it.
As far as the primary sources state explicitly, the answers are as follows. First, which plans can see which checks is written differently depending on the point in time and the source. In January 2012, Trusted Advisor was a feature for Gold and Platinum customers. On July 31, 2014, all customers gained access to four checks. The AWS Support User Guide, as of October 7, 2026, states that all checks are available to customers with Business Support+ (referred to as
AWS Business Support+ in the User Guide), Enterprise Support, and Unified Operations plans. In the same User Guide, the checks available to Basic Support plans are listed differently depending on the page.Next, regarding the Well-Architected Agent, the What's New announcement of October 1, 2026, describes it as
the next-gen evolution of AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The AWS Well-Architected User Guide states that AWS WA Agent ingests Trusted Advisor findings as baseline signals.No statement that announces a scheduled end for Trusted Advisor or that asks Trusted Advisor users to move to the Well-Architected Agent was found in the sources this article read. Of the 168 pages retrieved from the table of contents of the AWS Support User Guide on October 7, 2026, the name Well-Architected Agent appeared only on the page for signing up for Enterprise Support. It was not found on any of the 44 pages on which the name Trusted Advisor appears (including the change log and Document history). It was also not found on the Trusted Advisor product page, the AWS Support FAQ, or the Trusted Advisor API Reference.
This article holds only names, dates, order, where the checks come from, and which plan names the sources at each point in time wrote in the usage requirements of Trusted Advisor features. It does not address pricing or the amounts indicated by the checks. This article leaves the list of checks and their criteria to the check reference in the User Guide, and the steps for audits that use Trusted Advisor to AWS Well-Architected - Practical Self-Audit Checklist by Pillar.
Background and Method of Creating AWS Trusted Advisor Historical Timeline
This section first outlines the sources used to populate each entry in the timeline, explains how names and dates were determined, and describes the creation of the usage requirements table. All sources were accessed on October 7, 2026, except the Internet Archive copy of the AWS Support User Guide PDF, which was retrieved on October 8, 2026.Check Names and Usage Requirements That Remain in Runbooks
Reviewing the documentation related to AWS Trusted Advisor reveals three aspects that vary over time:- Screen Names: On June 13, 2012, a What's New announcement highlighted the launch of the
AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard. On July 23, 2014, another What's New announcement stated that Trusted Advisor was now available in the AWS Management Console. On November 16, 2022, the AWS Support User Guide's change log stated,The Trusted Advisor Dashboard in the console is now Trusted Advisor Recommendations. - Number of Checks: A What's New announcement on January 30, 2012, reported 8 checks. An article on the AWS News Blog on March 3, 2013, mentioned 27. On July 23, 2014, a What's New announcement reported 37. The Trusted Advisor product page as of October 7, 2026, states
482, while the AWS Support User Guide's plan page statesMore than 500. - Usage Requirements: Sources from January 2012 mention Gold and Platinum plans. Sources from 2013 through 2020 list Business and Enterprise plans. On November 24, 2021, the Document history added Enterprise On-Ramp, and subsequent announcements sometimes mention it while others do not. The AWS Support User Guide as of October 7, 2026, lists the names of three plans announced on December 2, 2025.
For example, the page of the Trusted Advisor chapter of the AWS Support User Guide reads as follows on October 7, 2026.
AWS Trusted Advisor checks are available to customers with an AWS Business Support+, AWS
Enterprise Support, or AWS Unified Operations plan.The same page, when discussing the Basic Support plan, reads:
If you have a Basic Support plan, you can use the Trusted Advisor console to access all
checks in the Service Limits category and selected checks in the Security and Fault
tolerance categories. Automatic check updates aren't available in the Basic Support plan.On the same day, the same User Guide's check reference page lists two plans – Basic Support and Developer Support – and reads:
If you have a Basic Support or Developer Support plan, you can use the Trusted Advisor
console to access all checks in the Service limits category and the following checks in
the Security and Fault Tolerance categories:In this way, sources of the same day sometimes write the usage requirements of the same feature with different plan names. This is why this article places the Plan Gate Table after the timeline.
The Primary Sources This Article Used, and What It Made into Entries
The entries in the timeline were drawn from the following primary sources:- What's New — A full-text search for announcements containing
Trusted Advisoryielded 73 results as of October 7, 2026. Of these, 43 announcements were tagged withwhats-new-v2#general-products#aws-trusted-advisor, with the oldest dating back to July 23, 2014. Announcements prior to that date were taken from the full-text search results. This article uses the "post date" (postDateTime) for announcements, rather than the year and month included in the URL. ⚠ For announcements up to July 31, 2014, the time in the publication date is a placeholder, so only the date is used. - AWS News Blog and AWS Cloud Operations Blog — The News Blog includes articles from January 30, 2012, March 3, 2013, November 12, 2013, July 31, 2014, August 17, 2022, and October 1, 2026. The Cloud Operations Blog includes an article from November 17, 2020.
- AWS Support User Guide — This includes the pages of the Trusted Advisor chapter, the Document history, and the change log. A total of 168 pages were retrieved from the table of contents, and the 44 pages on which the name Trusted Advisor appears were reviewed. ⚠ The dates in each entry of the Document history are located at the end of the entry. The change log records the addition and removal of checks, along with their corresponding dates. ⚠ The dates in some entries in the change log may differ between the anchor date and the main content. For example, the anchor of the October 30, 2023 entry is
new-trusted-advisor-checks-october-26. Some entries in the change log do not have dates in the main content. This article uses the dates from the main content. According to the Document history, the change log page was added on November 18, 2020. The oldest entry in the change log dates back to February 18, 2020. - Trusted Advisor API Reference and AWS Support API Reference — This includes information on usage requirements, a list of operations, and endpoint descriptions. No Document history page was found in the table of contents of the Trusted Advisor API Reference.
- AWS Well-Architected User Guide — This includes pages related to the Well-Architected Agent and release notes.
- Trusted Advisor Product Page and AWS Support FAQ — This uses the content as of October 7, 2026.
- Trusted Advisor models in AWS SDK for Python (botocore) — This uses the revision history and PyPI release dates to supplement the dates when API operations were added. ⚠ This refers to the date the operation was included in the SDK model, not the announcement date. For items with a date in What's New, this date was used only as a supplementary reference. For items without dates found in What's New or the User Guide (such as
ListRecommendationsForResourcefrom July 28, 2026), the date the operation was included in the SDK model is used.
The entries cover the names of Trusted Advisor screens and features, the sources of checks (including those imported from other services), which plans offer visibility into which checks, a mechanism for viewing organizational accounts collectively, two APIs, integration points with AWS Well-Architected, and events related to the deprecation of checks. Check additions were limited to those that added new check sources or categories, those that changed which plans can see a check, representative examples of checks that were later deprecated, announcements that gave the number of checks, the addition made on September 8, 2026, which is the closest to the verification date, and additions on which the sources disagree (such as the NAT gateway check of February 2026). Changes to screen names and locations were also documented. Specific additions of Trusted Advisor checks announced as individual service updates (for example, AWS Lambda on March 8, 2021, and Amazon Comprehend on September 30, 2021), announcements regarding AWS Systems Manager Explorer (May 4, 2020), announcements regarding the Trusted Advisor Explorer within AWS Solutions (May 7, 2020), minor changes to screen displays only, and announcements about pricing or amounts were not made into entries. Based on these criteria, 47 entries were selected. In other words, please note that the items on this timeline are not all updates to AWS Trusted Advisor, but are representative updates that I have picked out.
Names Are Taken from the Sources of That Day
The "Name on That Date" column in the timeline reflects the name used in the sources of that day. In this column, rows prior to November 16, 2022, do not use the term "Trusted Advisor Recommendations", and the 2016 row whose announcement says "CloudWatch Events" does not use "Amazon EventBridge". The "Name on the Verification Date" column clarifies the terminology used for the same item based on the verification date.⚠ AWS documentation itself sometimes applies new names to older records. For example, the January 29, 2021 entry in the Document history of the AWS Support User Guide states
Updated the Get started with Trusted Advisor Recommendations topic. as of October 7, 2026. The name "Trusted Advisor Recommendations" does not appear in the change log until November 16, 2022. The title of the January 18, 2022 entry in the same Document history reads, Added documentation for integrating with AWS Security Hub CSPM as of October 7, 2026. The January 19, 2022 What's New announcement, describing the same event, uses the term AWS Security Hub. The earliest What's New announcement that mentions Security Hub CSPM in a full-text search appears on June 17, 2025. In the PDF version of the User Guide created on 2025-12-02 (Internet Archive), the January 18, 2022 entry is titled Added documentation for integrating with AWS Security Hub.⚠ Older names remain in the documentation even after a new name appears. As of October 7, 2026, the check pages of the AWS Support User Guide have 161 notes about the API that excludes resources. Of these, 159 use the names of the plans announced on December 2, 2025. Two notes (regarding
AWS STS global endpoint usage across AWS Regions and Amazon S3 Incomplete Multipart Upload Abort Configuration checks) write For Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support customers. The AWS Well-Architected User Guide, on the page describing the integration of Trusted Advisor into the AWS Well-Architected Tool, states that it is for AWS Business and Enterprise Support customers. The AWS Support FAQ lists IAM Use (which was deprecated on May 15, 2024) as a check available to Basic Support customers. The Trusted Advisor chapter page still states, as of October 7, 2026, You also can use Amazon CloudWatch Events to monitor the status of Trusted Advisor checks. You cannot determine the document's publication date simply by looking at the names mentioned within it.Conflicting Dates and Statements for the Same Events
In some instances, there are multiple dates or different descriptions for the same event. This article presents the information as it appears in each source, without assuming that any one version is incorrect. The reasons for discrepancies in dates across different sources, and the rationale behind choosing specific dates for recording, are discussed in Where the AWS Primary Sources Disagree About Launch Dates.- Launch Year of Trusted Advisor: The What's New announcement from January 30, 2012, states
AWS Trusted Advisor launches with 8 checks, without using the term "beta". However, an AWS News Blog article from the same day writesThe following features are now in beta testing:. An AWS News Blog article from July 31, 2014, states,Since we launched Trusted Advisor in 2013. And an AWS Cloud Operations Blog article from November 17, 2020, states,Since 2014, AWS Trusted Advisor has been providing customers with visibility into an individual AWS account. The What's New announcements of July 23 and July 31, 2014, stateSince 2013, customers have viewed over 1.7 million best-practice recommendations, indicating that the count of views is tracked from 2013. - Interface Refresh: The AWS News Blog article is dated November 12, 2013, and the What's New announcement is dated December 18, 2013. The two sources each describe partly different content, so they are separate entries in the timeline.
- Migration to AWS Management Console: The What's New announcement from July 23, 2014, states,
AWS Trusted Advisor is now available in the AWS Management Console. An AWS News Blog article from July 31, 2014, states,we are moving the Trusted Advisor into the AWS Management ConsoleandThe Trusted Advisor is now an integral part of the AWS Management Console.Due to differing dates and content, these are listed in separate rows in the timeline. - AWS GovCloud (US): The What's New announcement from January 29, 2015, uses the term
now availablein the title, while the body of the announcement refers to a "preview". - Organizational View: The AWS Support User Guide's Document history lists an entry for "organizational view" on July 17, 2020, and an entry for "organizational units" on November 17, 2020. The What's New announcement and an AWS Cloud Operations Blog article both appear on November 17, 2020.
- Checks Imported from AWS Well-Architected: The What's New announcement from December 20, 2021, refers to
AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for performance efficiency. The same day's Document history and change log refer toAWS Well-Architected high risk issues for performance. - AWS Security Hub Checks: The change log and Document history entries are from January 18, 2022, while the What's New announcement is from January 19, 2022.
- Trusted Advisor Priority Preview: The Document history entry is from February 28, 2022, and the What's New announcement is from March 1, 2022.
- Trusted Advisor Engage Preview: The Document history entry is from April 6, 2023, and the What's New announcement is from April 7, 2023.
- AWS Config Checks: The change log (anchor link) and Document history entries are from October 26, 2023, while the change log body and What's New announcement are from October 30, 2023.
- Amazon RDS Checks: The change log (anchor link) uses
new-trusted-advisor-checks-november-14. The change log body and What's New announcement are from November 15, 2023. - New Trusted Advisor API: The What's New announcement is from November 17, 2023. The change log entry has no date, and its anchor is
new-trusted-advisor-api-11-13-2023. The API also entered the botocore model on November 17, 2023. No Document history entry for this API was found. - Resource Exclusion API: The botocore model has April 29, 2024, and What's New has May 2, 2024. The What's New announcement uses the name
BatchUpdateRecommendationResourceExclusions, while the Trusted Advisor API Reference and User Guide useBatchUpdateRecommendationResourceExclusion. - NAT Gateway Check: The change log records it as a new check on February 19, 2026, and the What's New announcement states that detection was
enhancedon February 23, 2026. - Total Number of Checks: The product page from October 7, 2026, states,
totaling 482 Trusted Advisor checks. The AWS Support User Guide's plan page states,More than 500 checks with AWS Trusted Advisor. - Checks Available with Basic Support and Usage Requirements: This is handled in the Plan Gate Table.
How to Read the Plan Gate Table
The Plan Gate Table lists, one row per source, which plan names each source writes as the usage requirements of a feature. This article's table is built with the same columns and rules as the Plan Gate Table of AWS History and Timeline regarding AWS Support Plans, with the two rules added by AWS History and Timeline regarding AWS Health and one more rule for the change log: a User Guide Document history entry uses the date of the entry as its As Of; from a sentence that mentions pricing, only the part without the pricing phrase is copied; and a change log entry uses the date in the body of the entry as its As Of. The columns are as follows:- What It Gates: The feature whose usage requirements the source states.
- Plans Named in the Source: The plan names the source writes, copied in the source's own spelling; spellings such as
a AWSare left as they are. Where the source states nothing, the cell saysThe source does not say.Before writing that, the entire source, including its pricing sections, is searched forplan,Support,available to,must have, andcustomersto confirm that no sentence says otherwise. From a sentence that mentions pricing, only the part without the pricing phrase is copied. - Where AWS Says So: The document containing this information.
- As Of: For What's New and the AWS News Blog, this indicates the publication date. For entries from the User Guide's Document history, this reflects the date of the entry. For change log entries, this reflects the date in the body of the entry. For the main body of the User Guide, API Reference, FAQ, and product page, this reflects the verification date (2026-10-07).
Each source gets its own row. Even when sources say different things, their rows are not merged into one. When a single source states the usage requirements for two or more features, some are split into one row per feature (the What's New announcement of 2014-07-31, the AWS Support FAQs, and the
trusted-advisor page of the User Guide), and others are kept in one row as a contrast between plan ranges (the What's New announcement of 2015-01-29, the AWS News Blog article of 2022-08-17, and the product page). The rows are chosen from the sources related to the timeline entries and from the main sources on the verification date, and they do not cover every usage requirements sentence the sources write. This article puts announcements, blog articles, and Document history and change log entries, whose As Of differs from row to row, into Table 1 (2012–2021) and Table 2 (2022–2026). Sources whose As Of is the verification date are split into Table 3 for the AWS Support User Guide and Table 4 for the other sources.Topics Covered in Other Articles
This article will not cover the following topics, but will instead defer to other articles.- A list of checks and the criteria for each check — This information is available in the check reference in the AWS Support User Guide. This article only lists the names of checks related to entries in a timeline.
- Procedure for using Trusted Advisor for assessments — AWS Well-Architected - Practical Self-Audit Checklist by Pillar describes the use of Trusted Advisor as an assessment tool.
- History of AWS Well-Architected — AWS Well-Architected Framework History and Timeline covers this. The entry for 2022-11-07 in that article contains the same announcement as the entry for 2022-11-07 in this article.
- Description of the AWS Well-Architected Agent itself — This falls outside the scope of this article. This article holds only the 2026-10-01 entry and the verbatim quotes that show its relationship with Trusted Advisor.
- History of CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge — AWS History and Timeline regarding Amazon EventBridge covers this. The entry for 2016-11-18 in that article contains the same announcement as the entry for 2016-11-18 in this article.
- History of service limits and quotas — AWS Service Quotas History and Timeline covers this.
- History of AWS Support plan names — AWS History and Timeline regarding AWS Support Plans covers this. The entry for 2012-06-13 in that article contains the same announcement as the entry for 2012-06-13 in this article. Rows for the usage requirements in the same sources have the same values in this article's Plan Gate Table as in that article's.
- History of AWS Health — AWS History and Timeline regarding AWS Health covers this. AWS Health also has a feature called "organizational view", but it is a different feature from the "organizational view" in Trusted Advisor.
- Configuration for publicly exposing storage and data — What Can Be Made Public on AWS provides this information.
- History of AWS Organizations — AWS History and Timeline regarding AWS Organizations covers this.
- Overall timeline of AWS services — AWS History and Timeline places AWS Trusted Advisor in its 2012-01-30 entry, which cites the same sources as the two 2012-01-30 entries in this article.
AWS Trusted Advisor Historical Timeline (Updates from January 30, 2012)
The following 11 tables constitute the main body of this historical timeline. Each table has the following columns. All references were obtained on October 7, 2026, except the Internet Archive copy of the AWS Support User Guide PDF, which was retrieved on October 8, 2026.- Date — For What's New announcements, this indicates the publication date. For the AWS News Blog and AWS Cloud Operations Blog, it indicates the article's publication date. For the User Guide, it indicates the date of the entry in the Document history. For the change log, it is the date in the body of the entry. For botocore, it indicates the release date on PyPI. If an event has a What's New announcement, its publication date is listed here, and the dates in other sources are given in the What Happened column. If an AWS News Blog article contains information not included in a What's New announcement, it is listed in a separate row.
- Name on That Date — This indicates the name the source used on that date. The source's spelling is reproduced verbatim. Some rows that cover several checks describe them in plain words instead of names, and rows that name nothing are marked with
—. - Name on the Verification Date — This indicates what that name represents in the sources verified on October 7, 2026, and its current status. A
—in this column means that there is no counterpart on the verification date, such as for a deprecated check, or that the row names nothing. - What Happened — This describes the event that occurred.
- Source — This indicates the source used as the basis for this row.
Index:
- 2012–2013 - The period when Trusted Advisor launched as a feature for Gold and Platinum customers, the AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard was released, and Trusted Advisor was opened to all customers for one month.
- 2014 - Four checks were made available to all customers, and Trusted Advisor became accessible in the AWS Management Console.
- 2015–2016 - Expanded to AWS GovCloud (US) and integrated with CloudWatch Events.
- 2017–2018 - Public snapshot checks and the
S3 Bucket Permissionscheck were made available to all customers. - 2020–2021 - A change log page was added, along with the organizational view and checks from AWS Well-Architected.
- January–August 2022 - Checks for AWS Security Hub and AWS Compute Optimizer were added, along with Trusted Advisor Priority.
- November 2022 - Trusted Advisor was integrated with the AWS Well-Architected Tool, the console's Trusted Advisor Dashboard was renamed Trusted Advisor Recommendations, and checks for AWS Resilience Hub were added.
- 2023–2024 - The preview of Trusted Advisor Engage began, and checks for AWS Config and a new Trusted Advisor API were added. Checks including
IAM Usewere deprecated. - 2025 - Checks for AWS Cost Optimization Hub were added, the STS check was made available to all plans, logging checks were deprecated, and the Trusted Advisor Engage section was removed from the User Guide.
- January–August 2026 - Five cost checks were deprecated, and the ability to retrieve recommendations for a single resource was added to the SDK model.
- September–October 2026 - A check for outdated NitroV4 ENA drivers was added, and the preview of the AWS Well-Architected Agent was announced.
* You can sort the table by clicking on the column name.
2012–2013 — A Feature for Gold and Platinum Customers, the AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard, and One Month for All Customers
During this period, except for one month in March 2013, Trusted Advisor was a feature for customers of some AWS Premium Support plans.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-30 | AWS Trusted Advisor | AWS Trusted Advisor | Trusted Advisor was launched as a feature for Gold and Platinum Premium Support customers. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor launches with 8 checks and additional ones will be continuously deployed throughout the year. This announcement did not mention the term "beta". | Amazon Web Services Introduces New Premium Support Features |
| 2012-01-30 | AWS Trusted Advisor | AWS Trusted Advisor | An AWS News Blog article described Trusted Advisor as being in beta testing. The article listed the first 8 checks, including Service Limits, and states The following features are now in beta testing:. It also states These new features are available for all Gold and Platinum customers. | New AWS Premium Support Features: Third-Party Software Support and AWS Trusted Advisor |
| 2012-06-13 | AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard | Trusted Advisor console (the name Trusted Advisor Recommendations is used from 2022-11-16) | The AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard was released. The announcement stated, Launch of the AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard which provides customers self-service access to proactive alerts. In the same announcement, the AWS Support plan names changed from metallic names to descriptive names (Developer, Business, Enterprise). | AWS Support … Adds New Features … |
| 2013-03-03 | AWS Trusted Advisor | AWS Trusted Advisor | For the month of March 2013, Trusted Advisor was made available to all customers. The article states that Trusted Advisor is normally for customers on the Business or Enterprise levels of AWS Premium Support, and then states For the month of March 2013, the AWS Trusted Advisor is available to all AWS customers. The number of checks increased by 4, reaching a total of 27, and a "suppress" feature was added to allow users to hide certain check results. | AWS Trusted Advisor Update – … New Features |
| 2013-11-12 | Trusted Advisor | Trusted Advisor console | The Trusted Advisor interface was refreshed. The article states We’ve made a host of improvements to the user interface of the Trusted Advisor. and notes that more than 20 checks were added in 2013. | AWS Trusted Advisor Update – Improved UI & More Checks |
| 2013-12-18 | new AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard | Trusted Advisor console | A new notification feature and a new dashboard were announced. The announcement stated, Starting today, you will be alerted to changes in the status of your AWS resources by the new notification feature in the new AWS Trusted Advisor dashboard. The announcement also stated that the number of checks was 31, and that weekly notification emails were available to AWS Support Business and Enterprise customers. | Introducing AWS Trusted Advisor Notifications, New Dashboard, and Improvements |
2014 — Four Checks for All Customers, and the AWS Management Console
In this year, some checks were opened to all customers, and Trusted Advisor became available in the AWS Management Console.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-18 | AWS CloudTrail Logging | A check with the same name was deprecated on 2025-07-22 (see the 2025 table) | Five checks for AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Route 53 were added. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor now provides 37 AWS best practices. One of the five was AWS CloudTrail Logging. | AWS Trusted Advisor adds five new checks on AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Route 53 |
| 2014-07-23 | AWS Trusted Advisor console | Trusted Advisor console | Trusted Advisor became available in the AWS Management Console. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor is now available in the AWS Management Console, with an enhanced dashboard and new customization features. It also stated, We will discontinue the current Trusted Advisor in the AWS Support Center in the near future. The announcement mentioned a total of 37 checks. | Introducing AWS Trusted Advisor Console |
| 2014-07-31 | Security Groups - Specific Ports Unrestricted, Service Limits, IAM Use, MFA on Root Account | A check named IAM Use was deprecated on 2024-05-15. The Service Limits check with the same name (eW7HH0l7J9) was removed on 2020-02-18. Names that correspond to the other two are in the check reference list for Basic Support and Developer Support on the verification date. | Four checks became available to all customers. The announcement stated, Starting today, all AWS customers can start optimizing their cloud resources by using four of AWS Trusted Advisor’s most popular best-practice recommendations on service limits and security configurations. It states that the remaining 33 checks are available with Business- or Enterprise-level Support. | AWS Trusted Advisor Security and Service Limits Checks … |
| 2014-07-31 | Trusted Advisor | AWS Trusted Advisor | An AWS News Blog article wrote that Trusted Advisor was moving into the AWS Management Console. The article stated, Second, we are moving the Trusted Advisor into the AWS Management Console. It also stated, The Trusted Advisor is now an integral part of the AWS Management Console. The same article also writes Since we launched Trusted Advisor in 2013 (for the split over the starting year, see the section on conflicting dates and statements). | AWS Trusted Advisor For Everyone |
2015–2016 — AWS GovCloud (US), Tags, and CloudWatch Events
During this period, Trusted Advisor expanded to AWS GovCloud (US) and integrated with CloudWatch Events.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-29 | AWS Trusted Advisor (AWS GovCloud (US)) | AWS Trusted Advisor | The preview of AWS Trusted Advisor began in AWS GovCloud (US). The title of the announcement says now available, but the body says the preview of AWS Trusted Advisor in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. The announcement states that, from 2015-02-27, Business-level or Enterprise-level support is required to use all checks, and that two checks, Service Limits and Security Groups - Specific Ports Unrestricted, would continue to be available to all AWS GovCloud (US) customers. | AWS Trusted Advisor now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region |
| 2016-06-23 | Trusted Advisor | AWS Trusted Advisor | Trusted Advisor reports could now be filtered by tags. The announcement stated, With tagging support enabled, customers can filter Trusted Advisor reports using existing resource tags. | AWS Support enables tagging capabilities for Trusted Advisor |
| 2016-11-18 | Amazon CloudWatch Events | Amazon EventBridge | Notifications and automated actions could now be triggered through CloudWatch Events based on the status of Trusted Advisor checks. The announcement stated, You can now create configurable, rule-based events for notifications and automated actions based on AWS Trusted Advisor’s library of best-practice checks using Amazon CloudWatch Events. The announcement also states that the full set of checks, including the CloudWatch Events integration, is available to Business and Enterprise support plan customers. The Document history entry of the same day also states that a CloudWatch Events section was added. | Trusted Advisor enables automated actions and custom notifications |
2017–2018 — Public Snapshots, the Service Limit Dashboard, and S3 Bucket Permissions
During this period, checks that find public settings were opened to all customers.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-09 | Public snapshot checks | Amazon EBS Public Snapshots, Amazon RDS Public Snapshots (in the check reference list for Basic Support and Developer Support on the verification date) | Checks that find public Amazon EBS and Amazon RDS snapshots were added. The announcement states AWS Trusted Advisor now helps you better secure your data by alerting you whenever it detects a public snapshot of your Amazon EBS or Amazon RDS data. and These new checks are available to all AWS customers. | AWS Trusted Advisor Now Checks for Public Snapshots of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Data |
| 2017-11-20 | Service Limit Dashboard | The name Service Limit Dashboard was not found in the User Guide on the verification date. There are pages for the Service Limits category checks and for CloudWatch metrics. | The Service Limit Dashboard, along with CloudWatch metrics for all checks, was added. The announcement stated, Service Limit Dashboard covers 39 limits across 10 services and is available to all AWS customers, and In addition, Trusted Advisor now publishes metrics for all checks to CloudWatch. | AWS Trusted Advisor Adds Service Limit Dashboard and CloudWatch Metrics |
| 2018-02-20 | S3 Bucket Permissions | Amazon S3 Bucket Permissions (in the check reference list for Basic Support and Developer Support on the verification date) | The S3 Bucket Permissions check was made available to all customers. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor now helps all customers better secure their data by providing the S3 Bucket Permissions check, and noted that it was Previously available only to Business and Enterprise support customers. | AWS Trusted Advisor's S3 Bucket Permissions Check … |
2020–2021 — Check Removals, Organizational View, Enterprise On-Ramp, and Checks from AWS Well-Architected
During this period, a change log page was added, and a way to view the accounts of an organization together and checks ingested from AWS Well-Architected were added.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-18 | Service Limits (eW7HH0l7J9) | On the verification date, the check reference lists checks for each service in the Service Limits category | The check named Service Limits was removed. The change log states Trusted Advisor removed the following check on February 18, 2020. and lists Service Limits (eW7HH0l7J9) in the Performance category. The anchor for this item is remove-checks-02-20-2020. Although it shares the same name as a check made available to all customers on 2014-07-31, the 2014 announcement does not include the check's ID. | Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor |
| 2020-11-17 | Organizational View | organizational view | Check results for the accounts of an AWS Organizations organization could now be viewed together. The announcement states Starting today, you can use the console to aggregate AWS Trusted Advisor recommendations across all accounts in your organization with AWS Organizations. and specifies that the management account must have a Business or Enterprise level of AWS Support. The organizational view entry in the User Guide's Document history is dated 2020-07-17, and its 2020-11-17 entry says that reports per organizational unit (OU) were added. | AWS Trusted Advisor enables multi-account reporting of best practice recommendations with AWS Organizations / View AWS Trusted Advisor recommendations at scale with AWS Organizations |
| 2020-11-18 | Four Windows checks and EBS Active Volumes | — | The change log records the removal of five checks. They are four Windows checks, including EC2Config Service for EC2 Windows Instances, and EBS Active Volumes. The Document history for the same date states, Added a change log topic. | Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor / Document history |
| 2021-11-24 | Enterprise On-Ramp | Enterprise On-Ramp. According to the User Guide, it is scheduled to end on 2027-01-01 (as of 2026-10-07), but will continue to be offered on AWS GovCloud (US). The FAQ states that support continues through December 31, 2026, and does not mention this exception. | All Trusted Advisor checks became available with the Enterprise On-Ramp plan. The Document history states, If you have an Enterprise On-Ramp Support plan, you have access to all Trusted Advisor checks and the AWS Support API. A What's New announcement on the same date also states that Enterprise On-Ramp includes all Trusted Advisor checks. | Document history / Announcing General Availability of Enterprise On-Ramp |
| 2021-12-20 | Four checks, including AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for cost optimization | Checks imported from AWS Well-Architected | Results of AWS Well-Architected reviews began to appear as Trusted Advisor checks. The announcement states, The Trusted Advisor checks sourced from Well-Architected will contain an aggregated count of the number of HRIs (High Risk Issues) discovered per pillar per workload. The direction is from AWS Well-Architected to Trusted Advisor. One of the four checks is named AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for performance efficiency in the announcement, while the Document history and change log refer to it as AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for performance. | AWS Well-Architected Tool adds four new Trusted Advisor checks |
January–August 2022 — AWS Security Hub, Trusted Advisor Priority, and AWS Compute Optimizer
During January–August 2022, the number of checks ingested from other services increased, and Trusted Advisor Priority was added.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-19 | AWS Security Hub | AWS Security Hub CSPM | AWS Security Hub controls were ingested as Trusted Advisor checks. The announcement stated, Today, AWS Trusted Advisor adds 111 checks automatically ingested from AWS Security Hub's Foundational Security Best Practices. It lists an AWS Business or AWS Enterprise Support plan as a usage requirement. The change log and Document history entries are dated 2022-01-18, and their titles now use the name Security Hub CSPM. | AWS Trusted Advisor now integrates with AWS Security Hub |
| 2022-03-01 | AWS Trusted Advisor Priority (preview) | Trusted Advisor Priority | The preview of AWS Trusted Advisor Priority began. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor Priority is now available in preview for AWS Enterprise Support customers. It is a feature that shows recommendations selected by the AWS account team, with priorities. The Document history entry is dated 2022-02-28. | AWS Trusted Advisor introduces Priority for AWS Enterprise Support customers (Preview) |
| 2022-05-04 | AWS Compute Optimizer | AWS Compute Optimizer | Results from AWS Compute Optimizer were ingested as four checks. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor adds 4 checks automatically ingested from AWS Compute Optimizer. It specifies that this is available for Business Support, Enterprise Support On-Ramp, and Enterprise Support plans. | AWS Compute Optimizer adds four new Trusted Advisor checks |
| 2022-08-17 | AWS Trusted Advisor Priority | Trusted Advisor Priority | Trusted Advisor Priority became generally available. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor Priority is now generally available for AWS Enterprise Support customers. An AWS News Blog article of the same day describes the range of checks at that time as When you have AWS Basic Support, available to all customers, or AWS Developer Support, you have access to core security and service limits checks. The article also states Trusted Advisor implements over 200 checks in five categories. | AWS Trusted Advisor Priority is now generally available for AWS Enterprise Support customers / AWS Trusted Advisor – New Priority Capability |
November 2022 — The AWS Well-Architected Tool, Trusted Advisor Recommendations, and AWS Resilience Hub
In this month, Trusted Advisor was integrated with the AWS Well-Architected Tool, and the screen was renamed Trusted Advisor Recommendations.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-07 | AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) | AWS Well-Architected Tool | In the AWS Well-Architected Tool review process, it became possible to view the results of Trusted Advisor checks. The announcement states, With the AWS Trusted Advisor integration, the AWS WA Tool now presents findings based on automated Trusted Advisor resource checks, providing you with further contextual information during your reviews. The direction is from Trusted Advisor to the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The release notes for the AWS Well-Architected User Guide, also dated the same day, state, This release adds the AWS Trusted Advisor and AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry integration. | AWS Well-Architected Tool improves workload discovery and speeds up reviews / AWS Well-Architected User Guide (Release notes) |
| 2022-11-16 | Trusted Advisor Dashboard → Trusted Advisor Recommendations | Trusted Advisor Recommendations | The Trusted Advisor Dashboard in the console was renamed to Trusted Advisor Recommendations. The change log states The Trusted Advisor Dashboard in the console is now Trusted Advisor Recommendations. and This name change only updates the Trusted Advisor console. The Document history for the same day indicates that the Trusted Advisor Recommendations documentation was added, but does not explicitly mention the name change. No What's New announcement of this rename was found. | Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor |
| 2022-11-17 | AWS Resilience Hub | AWS Resilience Hub | The results of AWS Resilience Hub assessments were ingested as two checks. The announcement states, AWS Trusted Advisor adds two new checks from AWS Resilience Hub that enable customers to view their latest application resilience score and resilience policy status. The announcement names the customers who can use the checks as AWS Business Support and AWS Enterprise Support customers that have enabled Resilience Hub. | AWS Trusted Advisor announces new checks from AWS Resilience Hub |
2023–2024 — Trusted Advisor Engage, AWS Config, the New Trusted Advisor API, and Deprecated Checks
During this period, AWS Config checks and the new API were added, and a check with the same name as one of the checks opened to all customers in 2014 was deprecated.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-07 | AWS Trusted Advisor Engage (preview) | No Engage page was found in the table of contents of the User Guide on the verification date (see the 2025 table) | The preview of Trusted Advisor Engage began. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor Engage, a new capability in AWS Trusted Advisor, is now available in preview to AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support customers. The announcement says that Enterprise On-Ramp Support customers can view, request, and track AWS Support Engagements. The Document history entry is dated 2023-04-06. | AWS Trusted Advisor introduces Engage for AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support customers (Preview) |
| 2023-10-30 | operational excellence, AWS Config | Operational Excellence category / AWS Config | 64 checks were added through AWS Config managed rules, and the operational excellence category was added. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor adds a new operational excellence check category and integrates with AWS Config to deliver 64 new best practice checks across all categories. While the body of the change log entry is dated 2023-10-30, the section anchor and Document history entry are dated 2023-10-26. | AWS Trusted Advisor adds 64 new checks powered by AWS Config |
| 2023-11-15 | Amazon RDS | Amazon RDS | 37 checks for Amazon RDS were added. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor has launched 37 new Amazon RDS checks, and does not say that they were ingested from another service. The section anchor in the change log is new-trusted-advisor-checks-november-14. The announcement names the customers who can use the checks as AWS Enterprise customers, Enterprise On-ramp, and Business Support customers. | AWS Trusted Advisor adds 37 Amazon RDS checks |
| 2023-11-17 | Trusted Advisor APIs | Trusted Advisor API | New Trusted Advisor APIs were released. The announcement stated, AWS Trusted Advisor introduces new APIs to enable you to programmatically access Trusted Advisor best practice checks, recommendations, and prioritized recommendations. It also stated, The new Trusted Advisor APIs will replace the 3 functionalities previously offered through AWS Support API (SAPI). The next sentence is SAPI will continue to offer case and other support information., and the announcement gives no time frame for the replacement. The change log entry does not include a date, and the section anchor is new-trusted-advisor-api-11-13-2023. | AWS Trusted Advisor announces new APIs |
| 2024-05-02 | BatchUpdateRecommendationResourceExclusions | BatchUpdateRecommendationResourceExclusion | An API was added that allows users to exclude specific resources from check results. The announcement states This capability is only available to via AWS Trusted Advisor APIs, and not available through AWS Support API (SAPI). The announcement uses the plural form (s) at the end of the operation name, while the Trusted Advisor API Reference and User Guide use the singular form without the s. The operation entered the botocore model on 2024-04-29. | AWS Trusted Advisor now supports API to exclude resources |
| 2024-05-15 | Five checks, including IAM Use | — | Five checks were deprecated, including a check named IAM Use. The change log states Trusted Advisor deprecated 3 Fault Tolerance checks, 1 Perfomance check, and 1 Security check on May 15, 2024: (Perfomance is the spelling in the source) and lists IAM Use, ELB Cross-Zone Load Balancing, among others. IAM Use is the same name as one of four checks that were made available to all customers on July 31, 2014. | Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor |
2025 — Category-Level Metrics, AWS Cost Optimization Hub, the STS Check, and the Removal of the Trusted Advisor Engage Section
In this year, AWS Cost Optimization Hub checks were added, checks were deprecated in March and July, and a section was removed from the User Guide.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-27 | Category-level metrics | — | The Document history recorded the deprecation of category-level CloudWatch metrics. The Document history entry states Category-level metrics for Trusted Advisor are deprecated. and says that the reference was removed from the page for creating CloudWatch alarms. The specific date of the deprecation is not mentioned in this entry. | Document history |
| 2025-03-05 | AWS Security Hub (What's New uses the name Security Hub CSPM from 2025-06-17) | AWS Security Hub CSPM | The Document history recorded the deprecation of six Security Hub control checks. As of 2026-10-07, the Document history entry is titled Deprecated 6 AWS Security Hub CSPM checks. The change log lists these same six checks in an entry without a specific date. In the PDF version of the AWS Support User Guide created on 2025-12-02 (Internet Archive, captured 2025-12-03 13:18:14 UTC), the Document history entry is titled Deprecated 6 AWS Security Hub checks, and a full-text search of that PDF found no occurrence of the name Security Hub CSPM. | Document history / AWS Support User Guide PDF (Internet Archive, 2025-12-03 13:18:14 UTC) |
| 2025-05-30 | AWS Cost Optimization Hub | AWS Cost Optimization Hub | Recommendations from AWS Cost Optimization Hub were ingested as 15 checks. The Document history entry is titled 15 new AWS Cost Optimization Hub checks add to Trusted Advisor. According to the change log, one check for Amazon Aurora was added on 2025-06-09. The check reference indicates that this check represents recommendations from AWS Cost Optimization Hub. | Document history / Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor |
| 2025-06-09 | AWS STS global endpoint usage across AWS Regions | Same name (in the check reference list for Basic Support and Developer Support) | The STS check became available for all support plans. The change log states Updated check: This check is now available for all AWS Support plans. The Document history reads AWS STS global endpoint usage across AWS Regions is now available at all AWS Support plan tiers. This check was added on 2025-06-02. | Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor / Document history |
| 2025-06-11 | — | — | The introduction to the AWS Trusted Advisor chapter in the User Guide was updated. The Document history entry reads Updated AWS Trusted Advisor chapter introduction to reflect that Basic and Developer Support plans don't support automatic check refresh. As of 2026-10-07, the introduction page states regarding Basic Support checks, Automatic check updates aren't available in the Basic Support plan. Developer Support is not mentioned in this sentence (although the beginning of the same page contains an announcement regarding the end of Developer Support). | Document history / AWS Support User Guide (AWS Trusted Advisor) |
| 2025-07-22 | AWS CloudTrail Logging, Amazon S3 Bucket Logging | — | Two checks related to logging were deprecated. The change log lists vjafUGJ9H0: AWS CloudTrail Logging and BueAdJ7NrP: Amazon S3 Bucket Logging, stating These checks are deprecated. | Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor |
| 2025-08-07 | Trusted Advisor Engage | — | The Trusted Advisor Engage section was removed from the User Guide. The Document history entry reads Removed Get started with AWS Trusted Advisor Engage (Preview) section. No What's New announcements regarding the general availability or end of Engage were found. | Document history |
January–August 2026 — Five Deprecated Cost Checks, the NAT Gateway Check, and an Operation That Retrieves Recommendations for One Resource
During this period, five cost checks were deprecated, and an operation that retrieves recommendations for a single resource entered the SDK model.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-09 | Five cost checks | — | Five cost checks were deprecated. The change log entry is titled Deprecated 5 Cost Optimization Trusted Advisor checks and lists the names and IDs of the checks. This article gives only the date of the deprecation. | Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor |
| 2026-02-23 | unused NAT Gateway checks | The Cost optimization category of the User Guide on the verification date includes two NAT gateway checks: Idle NAT gateways and Inactive NAT Gateways. | The NAT Gateway checks changed. The What's New announcement states AWS Trusted Advisor has enhanced its detection of unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer detection capabilities. The change log entry of 2026-02-19 records a new check as New Idle NAT gateways. The What's New announcement does not specify which check the term enhanced refers to. The check reference page for Idle NAT gateways lists opting in to AWS Cost Optimization Hub and AWS Compute Optimizer as a condition, and the What's New announcement also lists opting in to these two services as a condition. | AWS Trusted Advisor now delivers more accurate unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer / Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor |
| 2026-07-28 | ListRecommendationsForResource | ListRecommendationsForResource | An operation that retrieves recommendations by specifying the ARN of a single resource entered the botocore model. The botocore changelog states: Adds ListRecommendationsForResource API and four CheckSummary fields. While the Trusted Advisor API Reference on 2026-10-07 has a page for this operation, it does not appear in the list of operations on the Trusted Advisor API page in the User Guide. No What's New announcement was found. | botocore 1.43.58 (PyPI) / ListRecommendationsForResource |
| 2026-08-27 | AWS Security Hub CSPM | AWS Security Hub CSPM | The AWS Security Hub CSPM controls that Trusted Advisor handles were updated to be limited to those released through July 8, 2026. The change log and Document history state: Trusted Advisor supports only AWS Security Hub CSPM controls available through July 8, 2026. The User Guide page for AWS Security Hub CSPM states: Controls released after July 8, 2026 are not yet onboarded to Trusted Advisor. The same page also states: New controls from Security Hub CSPM are added as checks in Trusted Advisor within two to four weeks. | Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor / AWS Support User Guide (Viewing AWS Security Hub CSPM controls) |
September–October 2026 — The NitroV4 ENA Check and the AWS Well-Architected Agent
During this period, a check was added to the Operational Excellence category, and a preview of the AWS Well-Architected Agent was announced on October 1, 2026.| Date | Name on That Date | Name on the Verification Date | What Happened | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-08 | NitroV4 Amazon EC2 instances running outdated ENA driver | Same name | An operational excellence check was added to identify Nitro system version 4 Amazon EC2 instances running outdated Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) drivers. The Document history states: Added a new operational excellence check that identifies Amazon EC2 instances running on Nitro system version 4 that use outdated Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) drivers. | Document history |
| 2026-10-01 | AWS Well-Architected Agent (preview) | AWS Well-Architected Agent (in preview as of 2026-10-07) | The preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent was announced. The announcement stated: AWS announces the preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered service that is the next-gen evolution of AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The body of the AWS News Blog article on the same day does not mention the name Trusted Advisor. The AWS Well-Architected User Guide states: AWS WA Agent ingests Trusted Advisor findings as baseline signals. No statement of a scheduled end for Trusted Advisor was found in the sources this article read. | AWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview / Announcing AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered intelligence to optimize your cloud environment (preview) / AWS Well-Architected User Guide (Related services) |
Current Overview, Functions, Features of AWS Trusted Advisor
This section outlines the state of AWS Trusted Advisor as of October 7, 2026, aligning each point with a timeline entry.Check Categories and Where the Checks Come From
The AWS Support User Guide check reference, as of October 7, 2026, categorizes checks into six categories: Cost optimization, Performance, Security, Fault tolerance, Service limits, and Operational Excellence. The Operational Excellence category was added on October 30, 2023.Over time, checks that ingest the results of other services have been added to Trusted Advisor's own checks. Listed in chronological order, they are as follows: ⚠ The numbers represent the count reported in each announcement or entry, and are not the counts on October 7, 2026.
- Trusted Advisor's own checks: The What's New announcement of January 30, 2012, gave eight checks.
- AWS Well-Architected: The What's New announcement from December 20, 2021, reported 4 checks. These checks show the number of high risk issues found in AWS Well-Architected reviews.
- AWS Security Hub (referred to as AWS Security Hub CSPM in the October 7, 2026 documentation): The What's New announcement from January 19, 2022, reported 111 checks. The change log from August 27, 2026, states that Trusted Advisor supports only the Security Hub CSPM controls available through July 8, 2026.
- AWS Compute Optimizer: The What's New announcement from May 4, 2022, reported 4 checks.
- AWS Resilience Hub: The What's New announcement from November 17, 2022, reported 2 checks.
- AWS Config: The What's New announcement from October 30, 2023, reported 64 checks.
- AWS Cost Optimization Hub: The Document history entry from May 30, 2025, reported 15 checks. According to the check reference, the checks for Amazon Aurora (from June 9, 2025) and
Idle NAT gateways(from February 19, 2026) also indicate recommendations from AWS Cost Optimization Hub.
As of October 7, 2026, the product page gives the number of checks as follows.
All AWS account plans get access to 56 AWS Trusted Advisor checks.
Business Support + and above unlock an additional 426 checks, totaling 482 Trusted Advisor checks.On the same day, the AWS Support User Guide's plan page writes
More than 500 checks with AWS Trusted Advisor. as something Business Support+ customers have access to. This article did not check the reason for the difference between the two numbers.
Which Plans See Which Checks
As of October 7, 2026, the AWS Support User Guide states that customers of the three plans announced on December 2, 2025, Business Support+, Enterprise Support, and Unified Operations, can use all checks. The descriptions for the Basic Support plan vary depending on the page.- On the introductory page of the Trusted Advisor chapter — The descriptions for Basic Support checks only mention the Basic Support plan, stating that customers can use all checks in the Service Limits category, as well as some checks in the Security and Fault tolerance categories. No check names are listed.
- On the check reference page — This page lists both Basic Support and Developer Support plans, stating that customers can use all checks in the Service limits category, as well as the following six checks:
Amazon EBS Public SnapshotsAmazon RDS Public SnapshotsAmazon S3 Bucket PermissionsMFA on root accountSecurity Groups – Specific Ports UnrestrictedAWS STS global endpoint usage across AWS Regions
- On the page for getting started with Trusted Advisor — It states that customers with the
Developer or Basic Support plansign in to the console to refresh the checks, while the checks of customers on the Business Support+, Enterprise Support, and Unified Operations plans are refreshed automatically once a week.
AWS Support's FAQ lists six security checks and service limit checks available to customers with Basic Support. These six are:
S3 Bucket Permissions, Security Groups - Specific Ports Unrestricted, IAM Use, MFA on Root Account, EBS Public Snapshots, and RDS Public Snapshots. This list includes IAM Use, which was deprecated on May 15, 2024, and does not include the STS check, which became available to all plans on June 9, 2025. The Trusted Advisor product page writes All AWS account plans get access to 56 AWS Trusted Advisor checks. without listing the names of the checks.Of the names of the four checks that became available to all customers on July 31, 2014,
IAM Use is also the name of a check that was deprecated on May 15, 2024, and Service Limits is also the name of a check (identified by the ID eW7HH0l7J9) that was removed on February 18, 2020. However, the 2014 announcement gives no check IDs, so this article does not go so far as to call either of them the same check as the 2014 one. The check reference on October 7, 2026, lists service-specific checks in the Service Limits category. The other two names (Security Groups - Specific Ports Unrestricted and MFA on Root Account) appear in the check reference list with a slightly different dash and capitalization (Security Groups – Specific Ports Unrestricted and MFA on root account).This article does not provide an answer to which checks are visible in your account. The usage requirements in the main sources are shown in the Plan Gate Table later.
Organizational View, Trusted Advisor Priority, and Trusted Advisor Engage
Organizational view is a feature that compiles the results of checks performed on accounts within an AWS Organizations organization into reports. As of October 7, 2026, the organizational view page of the AWS Support User Guide statesThe management account in your organization must have an AWS Business Support+, AWS Enterprise Support, or AWS Unified Operations plan. The page also states that, depending on the plans of member accounts, the checks they can use may differ from those of the management account. AWS Health also has a feature called organizational view, but it is a separate feature. The history and timeline of AWS Organizations itself is covered in AWS History and Timeline regarding AWS Organizations.Trusted Advisor Priority is a feature that shows recommendations selected by your AWS account team, with priorities. As of October 7, 2026, the User Guide states
You must have an AWS Enterprise Support or AWS Unified Operations plan. The What's New announcement of August 17, 2022, stated that Priority admin rights could be delegated to up to five AWS Organizations member accounts.Trusted Advisor Engage was announced on April 7, 2023, as a preview for Enterprise On-Ramp customers. On August 7, 2025, the Engage section was removed from the User Guide. In the table of contents of the User Guide on October 7, 2026, no Engage page was found. On 2026-10-07, the User Guide page on logging Trusted Advisor actions with CloudTrail still lists actions such as
CreateEngagement and ListEngagements, and the page does not say which feature these actions belong to. No What's New announcements regarding the general availability or end of Engage were found in the scope of this article. This article does not treat Engage as a feature as of October 7, 2026.Two APIs
There are two APIs available to programmatically utilize Trusted Advisor checks.- AWS Support API for Trusted Advisor operations: As of October 7, 2026, the AWS Support API Reference lists five operations:
DescribeTrustedAdvisorChecks,DescribeTrustedAdvisorCheckResult,DescribeTrustedAdvisorCheckSummaries,DescribeTrustedAdvisorCheckRefreshStatuses, andRefreshTrustedAdvisorCheck. Each of these five pages states,To call the AWS Trusted Advisor operations in the AWS Support API, you must use the US East (N. Virginia) endpoint.The API version is2013-04-15. - Trusted Advisor API: Released on November 17, 2023. As of October 7, 2026, the Trusted Advisor API Reference lists twelve operations, including
ListChecks,ListRecommendations,BatchUpdateRecommendationResourceExclusion,UpdateRecommendationLifecycle, andListRecommendationsForResource, which entered the botocore model on July 28, 2026. The API version is2022-09-15.
On the relationship between the two APIs, the sources write the following.
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.These sentences are from the What's New announcement of November 17, 2023, and from an undated entry in the change log. They name neither the three functionalities to be replaced nor when they will be replaced. After the screen was renamed, the change log of 2022-11-16 stated
You can continue to use the Trusted Advisor console and the Trusted Advisor operations in the Support API as usual. The What's New announcement of 2024-05-02 stated that the capability to exclude resources is available only through the Trusted Advisor APIs and not through the AWS Support API. The AWS Support API Reference on 2026-10-07 documents the five Trusted Advisor operations, and no statement of a planned deprecation was found in it. This article does not state that the Trusted Advisor operations in the AWS Support API have been replaced.AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Agent
Trusted Advisor and AWS Well-Architected have three points of intersection on the timeline. On December 20, 2021, the results of an AWS Well-Architected review became a Trusted Advisor check. On November 7, 2022, the results of a Trusted Advisor check became visible through the AWS Well-Architected Tool review. On October 1, 2026, the preview of the AWS Well-Architected Agent was announced.The What's New announcement of October 1, 2026, describes the Well-Architected Agent as follows.
AWS announces the preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, an AI-powered service that is the
next-gen evolution of AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool.The Related services page of the AWS Well-Architected User Guide describes the relationship with Trusted Advisor as follows.
AWS WA Agent ingests Trusted Advisor findings as baseline signals.The same page states
Both can be used simultaneously. about the relationship with the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The Well-Architected Agent page of the AWS Well-Architected User Guide also states AWS WA Agent ingests findings from services such as AWS Trusted Advisor.The following records what the sources do not say. No statement that announces a scheduled end for Trusted Advisor or that asks Trusted Advisor users to move to the Well-Architected Agent was found in the sources this article read. Similarly, the body of the AWS News Blog article of October 1, 2026, contained no references to either Trusted Advisor or the term
evolution. Of the 168 pages retrieved from the table of contents of the AWS Support User Guide on 2026-10-07, the name Well-Architected Agent appeared only on the page for signing up for Enterprise Support. This page lists AWS Well-Architected Agent access as one of the components included with Enterprise Support. No mention of the Well-Architected Agent was found on the 44 pages on which the name Trusted Advisor appears (including the change log and the Document history). It was also not found on the Trusted Advisor product page, in the AWS Support FAQ, or in the Trusted Advisor API Reference.As of 2026-10-07, Well-Architected Agent is in preview. The functionality, recommendations, and available regions for Well-Architected Agent are outside the scope of this article. The usage requirements of the Well-Architected Agent are shown in the Plan Gate Table later.
Plan Gate Table
The following four tables list, one row per source, which plan names the sources write as the usage requirements of Trusted Advisor and related features.Table 1 — Announcements, Blog Articles, and Document History Entries (2012–2021)
| What It Gates | Plans Named in the Source | Where AWS Says So | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Trusted Advisor | Gold and Platinum Premium Support customers | What's New | 2012-01-30 |
| AWS Trusted Advisor | all Gold and Platinum customers | AWS News Blog | 2012-01-30 |
| AWS Trusted Advisor (for one month in March 2013) | all AWS customers. The same article states that it is normally for customers on the Business or Enterprise levels of AWS Premium Support. | AWS News Blog | 2013-03-03 |
| Weekly notification emails | AWS Support Business and Enterprise customers | What's New | 2013-12-18 |
| Four checks | all AWS customers | What's New | 2014-07-31 |
| Remaining 33 checks | Business or Enterprise-level Support | What's New | 2014-07-31 |
| All checks in AWS GovCloud (US) (from February 27, 2015) | Business-level or Enterprise-level support. Service Limits and Security Groups - Specific Ports Unrestricted are for all AWS GovCloud (US) customers. | What's New | 2015-01-29 |
| The full set of checks, including the CloudWatch Events integration | Business and Enterprise support plan customers | What's New | 2016-11-18 |
| Public snapshot checks | all AWS customers | What's New | 2017-06-09 |
S3 Bucket Permissions check | all customers. Before that, Business and Enterprise support customers. | What's New | 2018-02-20 |
| Organizational view (management account) | Business or Enterprise level of AWS Support | What's New | 2020-11-17 |
| All Trusted Advisor checks | an Enterprise On-Ramp Support plan | AWS Support User Guide (Document history) | 2021-11-24 |
Table 2 — Announcements, Blog Articles, and Document History and Change Log Entries (2022–2026)
| What It Gates | Plans Named in the Source | Where AWS Says So | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Checks ingested from AWS Security Hub | an AWS Business or AWS Enterprise Support plan | What's New | 2022-01-19 |
| Trusted Advisor Priority (preview) | AWS Enterprise Support customers | What's New | 2022-03-01 |
| Checks ingested from AWS Compute Optimizer | Business Support, Enterprise Support On-Ramp, and Enterprise Support plans | What's New | 2022-05-04 |
| Trusted Advisor Priority | AWS Enterprise Support customers | What's New | 2022-08-17 |
| Core security and service limits checks, and all checks | For AWS Basic Support, available to all customers, or AWS Developer Support, core security and service limits checks; for AWS Business Support or AWS Enterprise Support, all checks. | AWS News Blog | 2022-08-17 |
| Trusted Advisor checks in the AWS Well-Architected Tool | the customer's AWS Support Plan. It names no plan. | What's New | 2022-11-07 |
| Trusted Advisor Engage (preview) | AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support customers | What's New | 2023-04-07 |
| AWS Config checks | AWS Business Support, AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support, and AWS Enterprise Support customers | What's New | 2023-10-30 |
| Trusted Advisor API | Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support customers | What's New | 2023-11-17 |
The AWS STS global endpoint usage across AWS Regions check | all AWS Support plans | Change log for AWS Trusted Advisor | 2025-06-09 |
| Automatic check refresh | The entry states that Basic and Developer Support plans do not support automatic check refresh. | AWS Support User Guide (Document history) | 2025-06-11 |
| AWS Well-Architected Agent | an AWS Support plan | What's New | 2026-10-01 |
Table 3 — The AWS Support User Guide on the Verification Date
| What It Gates | Plans Named in the Source | Where AWS Says So | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Trusted Advisor checks (the same page says that Basic Support gets some checks) | AWS Business Support+, AWS Enterprise Support, or AWS Unified Operations | AWS Support User Guide | 2026-10-07 |
| All checks in the Service Limits category and some checks in the Security and Fault tolerance categories | Basic Support plan. The source sentence does not name Developer Support (the top of the same page has the end-of-support notice for Developer Support). | AWS Support User Guide (AWS Trusted Advisor) | 2026-10-07 |
| All checks in the Service limits category and the six checks named on the page | Basic Support or Developer Support plan | AWS Support User Guide (Trusted Advisor check reference) | 2026-10-07 |
| Weekly automatic check refresh | AWS Business Support+, AWS Enterprise Support, or AWS Unified Operations. The page states that accounts with a Developer or Basic Support plan sign in to the console to refresh the checks. | AWS Support User Guide (Get started with Trusted Advisor Recommendations) | 2026-10-07 |
| Trusted Advisor API | AWS Business Support+, AWS Enterprise Support, or AWS Unified Operations | AWS Support User Guide (Get started with the Trusted Advisor API) | 2026-10-07 |
| Organizational view (management account of the organization) | AWS Business Support+, AWS Enterprise Support, or AWS Unified Operations | AWS Support User Guide (Organizational view for AWS Trusted Advisor) | 2026-10-07 |
| Trusted Advisor Priority | AWS Enterprise Support or AWS Unified Operations | AWS Support User Guide (Get started with AWS Trusted Advisor Priority) | 2026-10-07 |
Resource exclusion using BatchUpdateRecommendationResourceExclusion (159 of the notes on the check pages) | For AWS Business Support+, AWS Enterprise Support, or AWS Unified Operations plan customers | AWS Support User Guide (Cost optimization) / AWS Support User Guide (Performance) / AWS Support User Guide (Security) / AWS Support User Guide (Fault tolerance) / AWS Support User Guide (Service limits) / AWS Support User Guide (Operational Excellence) | 2026-10-07 |
Resource exclusion using BatchUpdateRecommendationResourceExclusion (the notes of the AWS STS global endpoint usage across AWS Regions and Amazon S3 Incomplete Multipart Upload Abort Configuration checks) | For Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support customers | AWS Support User Guide (Fault tolerance) / AWS Support User Guide (Cost optimization) | 2026-10-07 |
Table 4 — Other Sources on the Verification Date
| What It Gates | Plans Named in the Source | Where AWS Says So | As Of |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Support API | AWS Business Support+, AWS Enterprise Support, or AWS Unified Operations. The next sentence names Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, or Enterprise Support for accounts in Regions that do not offer those plans or that have not transitioned to them. | AWS Support API Reference | 2026-10-07 |
| Trusted Advisor API | The source does not say. | Trusted Advisor API Reference | 2026-10-07 |
| Trusted Advisor API | AWS Business Support +, AWS Enterprise Support, and AWS Unified Operations | AWS Support FAQs | 2026-10-07 |
| Checks available to Basic Support customers | Basic Support customers. Six security checks (including IAM Use) and service limit checks. | AWS Support FAQs | 2026-10-07 |
| All Trusted Advisor checks | AWS Business Support+, Enterprise Support and Unified Operations customers | AWS Support FAQs | 2026-10-07 |
| 56 checks, plus an additional 426 checks | 56 are available for All AWS account plans; 426 are available for Business Support + and above. | AWS Trusted Advisor | 2026-10-07 |
| AWS Well-Architected Agent | Business+ tier or higher: Business+, Enterprise On-Ramp, Enterprise Support, or Unified Operations | AWS Well-Architected User Guide | 2026-10-07 |
| Using Trusted Advisor with workloads in the AWS Well-Architected Tool | AWS Business and Enterprise Support customers | AWS Well-Architected User Guide (Activating AWS Trusted Advisor for a workload) | 2026-10-07 |
The AWS Support API Reference row in Table 4 is from the Welcome page. Of the pages for the five Trusted Advisor operations, four carry the same two sentences, and the page for
DescribeTrustedAdvisorChecks carries only a counterpart of the first, written with a AWS. Searching the full text of the Trusted Advisor API Reference for plan, Support, available to, must have, and customers found no sentence that names a plan.Three things can be read from the four tables and the timeline.
- In January 2012, Trusted Advisor was a feature for Gold and Platinum customers, and from July 31, 2014, some checks were opened to all customers. It was also opened to all customers for one month in March 2013. From 2013 to 2020, the sources wrote the usage requirements for all checks with the Business and Enterprise plans. On November 24, 2021, the Document history added Enterprise On-Ramp, and later sources include ones that name Enterprise On-Ramp (May 4, 2022, which writes
Enterprise Support On-Ramp; October 30, 2023; November 15, 2023; November 17, 2023) and ones that do not (the What's New announcements of January 19, 2022, and November 17, 2022, and the AWS News Blog article of August 17, 2022). For Trusted Advisor Priority, every source names Enterprise Support, and on October 7, 2026, the User Guide and the product page (customers on Enterprise Support or Unified Operations plans) also name Unified Operations. The FAQ of October 7, 2026, has a sentence about Priority that names Unified Operations (Available to AWS Enterprise Support and Unified Operations customers) and one that does not (available from the management or delegated administrator account on the Enterprise Support plan). - On October 7, 2026, the AWS Support User Guide writes Basic Support and Developer Support in three ways, depending on the page. In its sentence about Basic Support checks, the introductory page of the chapter names only Basic Support, the check reference page names Basic Support and Developer Support, and the page for getting started with Trusted Advisor writes
Developer or Basic Support plan. The Document history entry from June 11, 2025, lists both Basic Support and Developer Support, while the Trusted Advisor answers of the FAQ mention only Basic Support. The usage requirements for all checks are written asAWS Business Support+in the User Guide,AWS Business Support+, Enterprise Support and Unified Operations customersin the FAQ, andBusiness Support + and aboveon the product page. For the Trusted Advisor API usage requirements, the FAQ writesAWS Business Support +. The relationship between these spellings is covered in the spelling table of AWS History and Timeline regarding AWS Support Plans. - The usage requirements of the AWS Well-Architected Agent are written differently in two sources. The User Guide states
Business+ tier or higher, and in the same section, it also statesCustomers on Developer or Business tier plans do not have access to AWS WA Agent.The What's New announcement statesavailable to AWS customers with an AWS Support plan.
This article does not treat any of these sources as wrong.
Frequently Asked Questions about AWS Trusted Advisor History
This section answers common questions about the history of AWS Trusted Advisor.When did AWS Trusted Advisor start?
The What's New announcement of January 30, 2012, announced Trusted Advisor as a feature for AWS Premium Support Gold and Platinum customers, with eight checks. An AWS News Blog article of the same day describes it as beta testing and statesThese new features are available for all Gold and Platinum customers. Later sources also count from other years. An AWS News Blog article of July 31, 2014, states Since we launched Trusted Advisor in 2013, and an AWS Cloud Operations Blog article of November 17, 2020, states Since 2014. The What's New announcements on July 23 and July 31, 2014, track the number of recommendations viewed starting in 2013. This article starts the timeline on January 30, 2012, the date of the What's New announcement. The entry for Trusted Advisor in the AWS History and Timeline also lists January 30, 2012.Which Trusted Advisor checks do AWS sources say Basic Support accounts can see?
The sources of October 7, 2026, each write it differently. The introductory page of the Trusted Advisor chapter of the AWS Support User Guide says that Basic Support customers can access all checks in the Service Limits category and some checks in the Security and Fault tolerance categories, without naming those checks. The same User Guide's check reference page names both the Basic Support and Developer Support plans, stating that they have access to all checks in the Service limits category, as well as six specific checks (includingAWS STS global endpoint usage across AWS Regions). The AWS Support FAQ lists six security checks and service limit checks, including IAM Use. IAM Use was deprecated on May 15, 2024, and the STS check became available to all plans on June 9, 2025. The Trusted Advisor product page states, All AWS account plans get access to 56 AWS Trusted Advisor checks. This article does not treat any of these sources as wrong.Does the AWS Well-Architected Agent replace AWS Trusted Advisor?
The What's New announcement of October 1, 2026, describes the Well-Architected Agent asthe next-gen evolution of AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The AWS Well-Architected User Guide states AWS WA Agent ingests Trusted Advisor findings as baseline signals., and regarding the AWS Well-Architected Tool, it states Both can be used simultaneously. No statement that announces a scheduled end for Trusted Advisor or that asks Trusted Advisor users to move to the Well-Architected Agent was found in the sources this article read. Among the AWS Support User Guide pages retrieved on October 7, 2026, no mention of the Well-Architected Agent was found on the 44 pages on which the name Trusted Advisor appears (including the change log and the Document history). It was also not found on the Trusted Advisor product page, the AWS Support FAQ, or the Trusted Advisor API Reference. As of October 7, 2026, the Well-Architected Agent is in preview.Are the Trusted Advisor operations in the AWS Support API still documented?
As of October 7, 2026, the operations are still documented. The AWS Support API Reference lists five Trusted Advisor operations, and states that they must be called through the US East (N. Virginia) endpoint. No statement of a planned deprecation was found. The What's New announcement of November 17, 2023, and an undated entry in the change log write that the new Trusted Advisor APIswill replace three functionalities of the AWS Support API, but they name neither the three functionalities nor the timing. The same passage continues SAPI will continue to offer case and other support information. The What's New announcement of May 2, 2024, stated that the capability to exclude resources is available only through the Trusted Advisor APIs and not through the AWS Support API. The ListRecommendationsForResource operation, which entered the botocore model on July 28, 2026, is also an operation in the Trusted Advisor API Reference and is not among the five Trusted Advisor operations listed in the AWS Support API Reference.Summary
AWS Trusted Advisor launched on January 30, 2012, with eight checks, as a feature for AWS Premium Support Gold and Platinum customers. The AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard was released on June 13, 2012; on July 31, 2014, four checks were opened to all customers, and in the same year Trusted Advisor became available in the AWS Management Console. On November 18, 2016, it was integrated with CloudWatch Events, and organizational view was announced in What's New on November 17, 2020 (the Document history has an entry for it on July 17, 2020). From December 20, 2021, through 2025, results from AWS Well-Architected, AWS Security Hub, AWS Compute Optimizer, AWS Resilience Hub, AWS Config, and AWS Cost Optimization Hub were ingested as checks. On November 16, 2022, the screen was renamed Trusted Advisor Recommendations, and on November 17, 2023, the new Trusted Advisor API was released. From 2024 through 2026, checks continued to be deprecated.⇒ Which plans can see which checks is written differently depending on the source and the point in time. In January 2012, access was limited to Gold and Platinum plans. Sources from 2013 through 2020 refer to Business and Enterprise plans. From November 24, 2021, some sources mention Enterprise On-Ramp while others do not. As of October 7, 2026, the AWS Support User Guide writes the usage requirements for all checks with the Business Support+, Enterprise Support, and Unified Operations plans. The User Guide, the FAQ, and the product page of the same day each write differently which checks Basic Support can use.
⇒ Check names in runbooks may belong to checks that have since been deprecated. Of the names of the four checks opened to all customers on July 31, 2014,
IAM Use is also the name of a check deprecated on May 15, 2024, and Service Limits is also the name of a check removed on February 18, 2020. AWS CloudTrail Logging was deprecated on July 22, 2025, and five cost checks on January 9, 2026.⇒ The What's New announcement of October 1, 2026, describes the AWS Well-Architected Agent as the
next-gen evolution of Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool, and the AWS Well-Architected User Guide says that it ingests Trusted Advisor findings as baseline signals. No statement of a scheduled end for Trusted Advisor was found in the sources this article read. No mention of the Well-Architected Agent was found on the 44 AWS Support User Guide pages on which the name Trusted Advisor appears, on the Trusted Advisor product page, in the AWS Support FAQ, or in the Trusted Advisor API Reference.⚠ Check names, check counts, and usage requirements need to be checked source by source, together with the date of each source. Check additions and removals keep being recorded in the change log, and the Well-Architected Agent is in preview. All information is current as of 2026-10-07.
This timeline will be updated as AWS Trusted Advisor continues to evolve.
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