{"id":1243,"date":"2019-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/how-to-optimize-your-azure-environment"},"modified":"2025-06-24T06:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:53:26","slug":"how-to-optimize-your-azure-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/how-to-optimize-your-azure-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"How to optimize your Azure environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without the right tools and approach, cloud optimization can be a time-consuming and difficult process. There is an ever growing list of best practices to follow, and it\u2019s constantly in flux as your cloud workloads evolve. Add the challenges and emergencies you face on a day-to-day basis, and it\u2019s easy to understand why it\u2019s hard to be proactive about ensuring your cloud resources are running optimally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azure offers many ways to help ensure that you\u2019re running your workloads optimally and getting the most out of your investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"three-kinds-of-optimization-organizational-architectural-and-tactical\">Three kinds of optimization: organizational, architectural, and tactical<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One way to think about these is the altitude of advice and optimization offered: organizational, architectural, or tactical.<br>At the tactical or resource level, you have <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/advisor-acom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Advisor<\/a>, a free Azure service that helps you optimize your Azure resources for high availability, security, performance, and cost. Advisor scans your resource usage and configuration and provides over 100 personalized recommendations. Each recommendation includes inline actions to make remediating your cloud resource optimizations fast and easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/d89d53e3-064b-44ea-bb61-5197e37b1994.webp\" alt=\"Software as a Service plan creation in Partner Center showing seat based billing.\" title=\"Software as a Service plan creation in Partner Center showing seat based billing.\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the other end of the spectrum is <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Architecture Center<\/a>, a collection of free guides created by Azure experts to help you understand organizational and architectural best practices and optimize your workloads. This guidance is especially useful when you\u2019re designing a new workload for the cloud or migrating an existing workload from on-premises to the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/78aa57a7-d568-45a9-8a05-31dca3551b8b.webp\" alt=\"Azure Architechture Center main page.\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Azure Architechture Center main page.\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The guides in the Azure Architecture Center range from the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/architecture\/cloud-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure<\/a>, which can help guide your organization\u2019s approach to cloud adoption and strategy, to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/architecture\/reference-architectures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Azure Reference Architectures<\/a>, which provides recommended architectures and practices for common scenarios like AI, IoT, microservices, serverless, SAP, web apps, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"start-small-gain-momentum\">Start small, gain momentum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many ways to get started optimizing your Azure environment. You can align as an organization on your cloud adoption strategy, you can review your workload architecture against the reference architectures we provide, or you can open up Advisor and see which of your resources have best practice recommendations. Those are just a few examples, ultimately it\u2019s a choice only you and your organization can make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your organization is like most, it helps to start small and gain momentum. We\u2019ve seen many customers have success kicking off their optimization journey at the tactical or resource level, then the workload level, and ultimately working their way up to the organizational level, where you can consolidate what you\u2019ve learned and implement policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"get-started-with-azure-advisor\">Get started with Azure Advisor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you visit Advisor, you\u2019ll likely find many recommended actions you can take to optimize your environment. Our advice? Don\u2019t get overwhelmed. Just get started. Scan the recommendations for opportunities that are the most meaningful to you and your organization. For some, that might be high availability considerations like VM backup, a common oversight in VM creation, especially when making the transition from dev\/test to production. For others, it might be finding cost savings by looking at VMs that are being underutilized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image has-custom-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/4f753c06-3c79-4819-9704-47743b2c9430.webp\" alt=\"Azure Advisor recommendation details screen.\" style=\"border-radius:0px\" title=\"Azure Advisor recommendation details screen.\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you\u2019ve found a suitable recommendation, go ahead and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xO3V3FZWXwc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remediate it as shown in this video<\/a>. 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