Introducing Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor may be one of the most underrated services on Azure. Azure Advisor provides insights and recommendations, based on your usage, on how to optimize your Azure deployments from a security, cost, performance, and operational excellence perspective. Another great benefit of Azure Advisor is that it is free. Simply search for Azure Advisor
under All services in the Azure portal.
As shown in the following screenshot, Azure Advisor provides a clean dashboard showing the number of items that can potentially help optimize your deployment. Each item is ranked based on the impact of the saving:
As you can see from the previous screenshot, we have two recommendations under Cost, which could save us USD 1,071 annually, and one Medium impact recommendation under the Operational excellence category. To see more information on the recommendations, simply click on one of the categories to open it....