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Azure Advisor

Overview

Azure Advisor provides personalized recommendations to help you optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and offers best practices in five categories: Reliability, Security, Performance, Cost, and Operational Excellence.

Core Functionality

Reliability

  • Recommendations: Suggests ways to improve the reliability of your applications, such as configuring disaster recovery and high availability.
  • Best Practices: Ensures your resources are configured correctly to withstand failures and continue operating.

Security

  • Security Center Integration: Integrates with Azure Security Center to provide recommendations on securing your resources.
  • Access Management: Recommends best practices for managing access to your resources, such as using role-based access control (RBAC).

Performance

  • Performance Tuning: Provides recommendations to enhance the performance of your applications, such as optimizing virtual machine sizes and configurations.
  • Monitoring: Suggests monitoring tools and techniques to track and improve performance.

Cost

  • Cost Optimization: Offers recommendations to reduce costs, such as resizing or shutting down underutilized resources.
  • Savings Opportunities: Identifies potential savings through reserved instances and other cost-saving options.

Operational Excellence

  • Operational Best Practices: Recommends operational best practices, such as automating routine tasks and implementing monitoring and alerting.
  • Process Improvement: Suggests ways to improve operational processes and procedures for better efficiency.

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