Azure Advisor

• Azure Advisor evaluates your Azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, and performance, achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs.
• Azure Advisor is designed to help you save time on cloud optimization.
• The recommendations are divided into five categories:
  • Reliability: is used to ensure and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications.
  • Security: is used to detect threats and vulnerabilities that might lead to security breaches.
  • Performance: is used to improve the speed of your applications.
  • Operational Excellence is used to help you achieve process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment best practices.
  • Cost: is used to optimize and reduce your overall Azure spending.
• The Advisor dashboard displays personalized recommendations for all your subscriptions. You can use filters to select recommendations for specific subscriptions, resource groups, or services.
• You can set up notifications to alert you to new recommendations.
• The recommendation service includes suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss.
• The recommendations are available via the Azure portal and the API.