Security
Encryption, public access controls, MFA, TLS, identity least privilege
Lensix vs. AWS Trusted Advisor
The checks that matter are behind a support plan
Trusted Advisor is free to open. Most of what it can actually tell you — the full security and cost-optimization library, refreshed automatically — needs Business Support or higher, priced as a percentage of your AWS bill. Lensix checks everything, on every plan, including Free.
Not a better version of the same thing
Built into Lensix. Not in Trusted Advisor.
Cross-resource relationship mapping
Trusted Advisor checks one resource against one rule at a time. It has no concept of how your resources connect — Lensix's Architecture pillar maps those relationships directly, so a single point of failure or a dependency gap shows up even when every individual resource passes its own check.
A browsable resource inventory
Trusted Advisor's output is a list of check results — there's no way to browse your resources directly, with or without a finding attached. Lensix maintains a full, filterable inventory of every connected resource.
Suppression with a category and an expiry
Excluding a resource in Trusted Advisor removes it from view with no reason recorded and no expiry — it stays excluded until someone manually reverses it. Lensix suppressions carry an optional reason, a category, and a timer, so an accepted risk comes back for review instead of disappearing for good.
Push notifications
Trusted Advisor has no way to tell you when something changes — you check the console, or build it yourself. Lensix scans on a schedule and can notify you by email, Slack, or Teams the moment a new finding appears.
The full check set without a support contract
On Basic or Developer support, most of Trusted Advisor's checks — including the bulk of its security and cost-optimization library — aren't available in any form, not even a limited one. Lensix checks every pillar on every plan, including Free.
The rest of the picture
Where the two still overlap
| Lensix | AWS Trusted Advisor | |
|---|---|---|
| How you find out something changed | Scheduled scans, plus email, Slack, or Teams notifications the moment a new finding shows up. You don't have to go check. | Trusted Advisor doesn't notify anyone of anything on its own. Teams either check the console themselves or wire up their own EventBridge schedule to force a refresh and route the result somewhere. |
| How deep a check goes | Findings include how resources relate to each other — a security group feeding three instances, a subnet with no redundant route out, a bucket policy inherited from a stale template. | Each check scores one resource against one rule. Fault Tolerance flags a resource with no redundancy configured; it doesn't map what that resource actually connects to. |
| Cloud coverage | AWS, Azure, and GCP in the same dashboard with the same severity scale, if and when you need it. | AWS only — it's an AWS product. Each other cloud gets its own separate tool with no shared view. |
How you find out something changed
Lensix
Scheduled scans, plus email, Slack, or Teams notifications the moment a new finding shows up. You don't have to go check.
AWS Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor doesn't notify anyone of anything on its own. Teams either check the console themselves or wire up their own EventBridge schedule to force a refresh and route the result somewhere.
How deep a check goes
Lensix
Findings include how resources relate to each other — a security group feeding three instances, a subnet with no redundant route out, a bucket policy inherited from a stale template.
AWS Trusted Advisor
Each check scores one resource against one rule. Fault Tolerance flags a resource with no redundancy configured; it doesn't map what that resource actually connects to.
Cloud coverage
Lensix
AWS, Azure, and GCP in the same dashboard with the same severity scale, if and when you need it.
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS only — it's an AWS product. Each other cloud gets its own separate tool with no shared view.
Accurate as of October 2026, based on AWS's public Trusted Advisor and Support plan documentation. AWS periodically changes support-plan pricing and what's included in each tier — check the AWS Support plan comparison page for the current details.
What a Lensix review covers
Architecture
Single points of failure, network topology, coupling, drift from reference patterns
Cost
Unused resources, oversized instances, idle services
Performance
Right-sizing, Performance Insights, caching, throughput
Reliability
High availability, deletion protection, backup retention, redundancy
Operations
Audit logging, config rules, access logging, lifecycle policies
Trusted Advisor's Fault Tolerance checks whether a given resource has redundancy configured. They don't look at what else that resource talks to. Lensix's Architecture pillar maps those relationships directly — which load balancer feeds which instances, which subnet has no redundant route out — so a single point of failure shows up before it causes an incident.
Common questions
- What can Lensix do that Trusted Advisor can't, at any plan level?
- Four things, mainly: map how your resources relate to each other instead of checking them one at a time, maintain a full browsable inventory of every resource, suppress a finding with a category and an expiry instead of a reason-less toggle, and notify you by email, Slack, or Teams when something new shows up. None of those exist in Trusted Advisor on any support tier.
- Does Lensix replace AWS Trusted Advisor?
- For most teams, yes — Lensix covers the same ground Trusted Advisor does (cost, performance, security, fault tolerance, operational excellence) plus architecture and cross-resource relationships, on every plan including Free. Trusted Advisor is still worth keeping around for AWS-specific service-limit tracking tied directly to your support plan.
- Can I temporarily silence a finding without losing track of why?
- Yes. Suppress it with a category and an expiry — 7 days, 90 days, a year, or permanent — and it automatically returns to your list when the expiry passes. Trusted Advisor's resource-exclusion feature has no expiry; it stays excluded until someone manually reverses it.
- Can Lensix review AWS, Azure, and GCP together?
- Yes. Connect any combination of accounts across all three providers and see every finding in a single dashboard, ranked by the same severity scale.
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