Azure Best Practices – Azure Advisor

by | Oct 8, 2020 | Azure, Technology | 0 comments

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While cloud provides lot of agility, flexibility and ease for creating and managing your resources, it can be very costly if its not managed properly. Azure Advisor helps you analyzing 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. Icing on the cake is Azure Advisor is available at no additional cost. 


It provides:





  • Best practices to optimize your Azure workloads

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

  • One place to review and act on recommendations from across Azure

  • Alerts to notify you about new and available recommendations


Key things:


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.


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.


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.


 



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