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Azure Advisor

Your free, personalized guide to Azure best practices

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Get the most out of Azure

Quickly and easily optimize your Azure deployments. Azure Advisor analyzes your configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized, actionable recommendations to help you optimize your Azure resources for reliability, security, operational excellence, performance, and cost.

Try the new Advisor Score to assess how optimized your workloads are and find out the most impactful actions you can take. Learn more here.

Best practices to optimize your Azure workloads

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

Cloud score to assess how well-architected your workloads are

Alerts to notify you about new and available recommendations

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.

Explore cost optimization and other recommendation categories

About Azure security

  • Microsoft invests over USD 1 billion annually on cyber security research and development.
  • We employ more than 3,500 security experts who are completely focused on securing your data and privacy.
  • Azure has more certifications than any other cloud provider. View the comprehensive list.
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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.

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Get started in three steps

If you don’t already have an Azure free account, create one now.

Access Azure Advisor through the Azure portal.

Learn more with documentation and tutorials.

Documentation and learning resources

Documentation

Learn how to get started with Advisor. Explore the five cloud advisor optimization categories: reliability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost. Find out how to use Advisor programmatically through the Advisor REST API, command line (CLI), and PowerShell.

Videos

Watch our demo from Microsoft Ignite, covering how to optimize your Azure resources using Advisor.

Questions and feedback

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Cost optimization

Find out about the tools, offers, and guidance designed to help you manage and optimize your Azure costs. Learn how to understand and forecast your bill, optimize workload costs, and control your spending.

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Advisor updates, blogs, and announcements

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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 API, command 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.

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