Understanding Azure Advisor recommendations for usage optimization

Azure Advisor is a free service that examines resources and their usage in your subscriptions and provides personalized recommendations to help you optimize costs. You can configure Azure Advisor to target specific subscriptions or resource groups to selectively focus on critical optimizations. You can access Advisor using the portal, CLI, or REST API.

Here are some example recommendations Azure Advisor can provide to reduce costs:

• Right-size or shut down any underutilized VMs
• Use standard storage to store managed disk snapshots
• Right-size underutilized PostgreSQL servers
• Consider acting on your idle Azure Cosmos DB containers
• Right-size Data Explorer resources for optimal costs
• Repurpose or delete idle virtual network gateways
• Revisit the retention policy for classic log data in storage accounts
• Configure automatic renewal for expiring reservations
• Buy VM reserved instances...