Prerequisites

Enable Trusted Advisor Data Collection

There are 2 supported data collection methods:

1. Trusted Advisor API with Optimization Data Collection lab (recommended) - provides an automated way to collect Trusted Advisor checks for all accounts in your AWS Organizations via deployment of required AWS resources from provided AWS CloudFormation templates. Supports automated data refresh.
2. Trusted Advisor Organizational View - provides an easy way to collect Trusted Advisor checks for all accounts in your AWS Organizations without need to provision any additional resources. Only manual data refresh is supported.

Please choose preferred data collection method and expand respective section below to proceed:

Enable QuickSight

QuickSight is the AWS Business Intelligence tool that will allow you to not only view the Standard AWS provided insights into all of your accounts, but will also allow to produce new versions of the Dashboards we provide or create something entirely customized to you. If you are already a regular QuickSight user you can skip these steps.

1. Log into your AWS Account and search for QuickSight in the list of Services

2. You will be asked to sign up before you will be able to use it

   

3. After pressing the Sign up button you will be presented with 2 options, please ensure you select the Enterprise Edition during this step

4. Select continue and you will need to fill in a series of options in order to finish creating your account.

   • Ensure you select the region that is most appropriate based on where your S3 Bucket is located containing your TA report files.

     

   • Enable the Amazon S3 option and select the bucket where your Trusted Advisor Organizational View reports are located, by default it’s costoptimizationdata{account_id}

     

5. Click Finish & wait for the congratulations screen to display

6. Click Go to Amazon QuickSight

   

7. Check you have Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition