Azure Advisor

Your personalized Azure best practices recommendation engine.

Overview

Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, Reliability (formerly called High availability), and security of your Azure resources.

Key Resources

Homepage: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/advisor/
Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/advisor/
SLA: https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/advisor/
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News

Date News
4/9/2024
The team talks with Amit Bajaj about the new Retirement Workbook customers can use to keep track of services they are using that are being retired.   Media...
4/2/2024
Improve your workload’s resiliency and optimize your cloud deployments by reviewing recommendations on Advisor
3/4/2024
Initiate a self-serve experience of Assessments and manage their recommendations on Azure Advisor
2/29/2024
  Optimizing existing cloud environments is consistently the top cloud initiative for nearly every tech company, and the benefits of skilling your organization on optimization abound. Optimizing...
2/21/2024
In our previous Azure Architecture blog post, we discussed how the Azure Expert Assessment offering can help organizations identify the best cloud solutions for their business goals by offering...
1/22/2024
Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then...
1/10/2024
A week ago I gave a quick intro to why developers should look into infrastructure but conveniently (and intentionally) skipped going into details on how to solve things. A few details remain...
11/15/2023
Over the last 15 years, DevOps practices and new cloud technologies have streamlined and standardized operational processes to help developers focus on what really matters - their code. Yet as...
11/14/2023
Azure Well-Architected Review Assessment Updates Microsoft is excited to announce a significant update to the Azure Well-Architected Review assessment helps you build and optimize workloads. It...
11/10/2023
The team catches up with Nithya Sivam and Joshua Min who explain how Azure is democratizing access to the self-help content accessible in the Azure Portal. The Help API makes it easier to...
11/6/2023
Enable disks to tolerate zonal failures without causing disruptions to your application. To learn more, visit Reliability recommendations - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Learn
10/23/2023
Mike Martin, an exceptional Senior Cloud Solution Architect and Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. With over two decades of experience in the IT industry, Mike is an expert in coaching and...
8/24/2023
Avoid downtime and business interruptions by migrating your virtual machines to availability zones
7/31/2023
Review cost optimization insights for your Azure environment and identify savings using the new Cost Optimization workbook template in Azure Advisor.
6/28/2023
Evan and Sujit talk to Principal PM Ramya Oruganti about the release of Functions as a first class managed service on Azure Container Apps. She tells us how this opens up possibilities for...
6/13/2023
Review upcoming service and feature retirements and their impact on your workloads using the new Service Retirement workbook template which is available in Azure Advisor.
5/16/2023
Evaluate the reliability posture of your workloads, assess risks and plan improvements using the new Reliability workbook template which is now available in Azure Advisor.
5/10/2023
Advisor recommendations are now available in Azure Resource Graph in Azure China and US Government clouds.
5/9/2023
Evan and Sujit talk to Allison Jones, a Group PM for Azure's AIOps System Team. She gives us insights into how Microsoft uses AI/ML to analyze various signals from Azure to provide actionable...
4/26/2023
You can now customize the right sizing recommendations for virtual machines and virtual machine scale sets to make them more relevant and actionable for your workloads.