Azure Advisor

Azure Advisor is an included, no-cost service that provides advice on optimizing your Azure resources. It provides personalized and actionable best practice recommendations based on usage analysis and can be accessed directly within the portal.

There is a great deal of emphasis placed on using Azure Advisor and taking actions based on the recommendations. As such, Azure Advisor will be displayed when you log in to the Azure portal, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.8 – Azure Advisor prompt

Azure Advisor recommendations are available across the following categories; the URLs point to the complete list of recommendations available for each category:

• Cost: Recommendations provided for optimizing and reducing costs: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/advisor/advisor-cost-recommendations.
• Security: Recommendations provided to protect against vulnerabilities and threats: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/advisor/advisor...