Optimize and reduce costs with Azure Advisor

With this article we want to add value to our cloud customers and help them optimize and reduce costs by reviewing the features of Azure Advisor 

Main topics in this article

• Optimize your deployments with personalized recommendations
• Quickly and easily take action
• Assess how well your workloads follow best practices
• Find all your optimization recommendations in one place
• Azure Advisor is "free"

Optimize your deployments with personalized recommendations

Advisor provides relevant best practices to help you improve reliability, security, and performance, achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs. Configure Advisor to target specific subscriptions and resource groups, to focus on critical optimizations. Access Advisor through the Azure portal, the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI), or the Advisor API. Or configure alerts to notify you automatically about new recommendations.

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Quickly and easily take action

Advisor is designed to help you save you time on cloud optimization. The recommendation service includes suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss. Advisor Quick Fix makes optimization at scale faster and easier by allowing users to remediate recommendations for multiple resources simultaneously and with only a few clicks. Recommendations are prioritized according to our best estimate of significance to your environment, and you can share them with your team or stakeholders.

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Assess how well your workloads follow best practices

Understand how well your Azure workloads are following best practices, assess how much you stand to gain by remediating issues, and prioritize the most impactful recommendations you can take to optimize your deployments with the new Azure Advisor Score. Advisor Score enables you to get the most out of your Azure investment using a centralized dashboard to monitor, work on, and track your progress toward optimizing the cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance of your Azure resources.

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Find all your optimization recommendations in one place

Azure offers many services that provide recommendations, including Azure Security Center, Azure Cost Management, Azure SQL DB Advisor, Azure App Service, and others. Advisor pulls in recommendations from all these services so you can more easily review them and take action from a single place.

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Azure Advisor is "free"

Azure Advisor is available at no additional cost. However, note that some recommendations can incur costs upon remediation. For example, enabling virtual machine backup can incur charges for the backups. Advisor aims to help you find cloud cost efficiencies while following Azure best practices.