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Noted upgraded TrustedAdvisor functionality. (#364)

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- Cost of multi-account “overhead”: Internal AWS service management tools may need to be custom built or adapted.
- 🔹It can help to use separate AWS accounts for independent parts of your infrastructure if you expect a high rate of AWS API calls, since AWS [throttles calls](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/query-api-troubleshooting.html#api-request-rate) at the AWS account level.
- [**Inspector**](https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/) is an automated security assessment service from AWS that helps identify common security risks. This allows validation that you adhere to certain security practices and may help with compliance.
- [**Trusted Advisor**](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/trusted-advisor-console-basic/) addresses a variety of best practices, but also offers some basic security checks around IAM usage, security group configurations, and MFA.
- [**Trusted Advisor**](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/trusted-advisor-console-basic/) addresses a variety of best practices, but also offers some basic security checks around IAM usage, security group configurations, and MFA. At paid support tiers, Trusted Advisor exposes additional checks around other areas, such as reserved instance optimization.
- **Use KMS for managing keys**: AWS offers [KMS](#kms) for securely managing encryption keys, which is usually a far better option than handling key security yourself. See [below](#kms).
- [**AWS WAF**](https://aws.amazon.com/waf) is a web application firewall to help you protect your applications from common attack patterns.
- **Security auditing:**