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Azure Advisor

Your free, personalized guide to Azure best practices.
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OVERVIEW

Optimize your cloud investments with trust

Do more with less. Reduce costs and increase the efficiency of your cloud investments. Azure Advisor offers actionable recommendations to help you optimize your Azure resources for reliability, security, operational excellence, performance, and cost.
Features

Insights and actions for your workloads

Optimization

Best practices to optimize your Azure workloads.

Remediation

Step-by-step guidance and quick actions for fast remediation.

Workload assessment

Cloud score to assess how well-architected your workloads are.

Stay updated

Alerts to notify you about new and available recommendations.
Security

Embedded security and compliance

34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
 
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
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Pricing

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.
Resources

Documentation and learning resources

Frequently asked questions about Azure Advisor

  • Advisor is available in all Azure regions.
  • As a free service, Azure Advisor has no SLA.
  • Sign in to the Azure portal and select Advisor from the navigation menu or from the All services menu. You can also access the service through the Advisor REST APIcommand line (CLI), and PowerShell.
  • You can access Azure Advisor recommendations as an owner, contributor, or reader of a subscription.
  • You can configure Advisor to display recommendations for specific subscriptions or resource groups and tune some recommendations. Learn more.
  • Advisor for Azure Government offers slightly different recommendations. Learn more.
  • Azure customer enablement offers a comprehensive set of proven tools, guidance and resources to provide you with a clear path for your cloud journey. Explore what's available.
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Next steps

Optimize your workloads with Azure Advisor

Pay as you go or try Azure free for up to 30 days.
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Azure Solutions

Learn about more Azure cloud solutions

Solve your business problems with proven combinations of Azure cloud services, as well as sample architectures and documentation.
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Business Solutions Hub

Find the right Microsoft Cloud solution

Browse the Microsoft Business Solutions Hub to find the products and solutions that can help your organization reach its goals.