During a city security workshop, someone claims Trusted Advisor can fully replace GuardDuty for threat intelligence. How should the team separate the two purposes?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Trusted Advisor is the checklist buddy that says “hey, that S3 bucket looks wide open.” GuardDuty is more like the alarm that watches for shady behavior. Useful neighbors—not the same job.
Full Explanation
AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendation checks across categories such as security, cost, and performance, highlighting common misconfigurations. It is not a substitute for Amazon GuardDuty’s continuous threat detection and findings. GuardDuty analyzes activity signals for suspicious behavior; Trusted Advisor does not encrypt VPC traffic by itself. Keeping recommendation checks distinct from threat-detection platforms is the Cloud Practitioner distinction.