We only touched on the basics of nOps in this recipe. Here are some of the additional features that it offers:

• A security compliance dashboard to point out areas where you could improve your security posture
• Reserved instance planning to help you make decisions about purchasing reserved EC2 instances
• A spot advisor that shows how much you could save by switching on-demand EC2 instances to Spot instances
• An infrastructure changes report that shows you all of the changes that have been made to your account, who made them, and the costs associated with the changes
• An inventory report that gives you a quick high-level view of common resources that have been provisioned in your account
• A rules engine that allows you to configure custom compliance rules for your account
• Readiness reports for compliance accreditation, such as SOC 2 and HIPAA

While it's possible to glean much of this information yourself by cobbling together data from AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS CloudWatch, nOps is a huge time-saver that can quickly bring issues to the forefront so they can be addressed in a timely fashion.