You can have multiple workloads in your cloud. When time goes on you might find it difficult to manually check each and every resource. Most of the time Cloud housekeeping is neglected.
Maybe your resources are not provisioned with the best practices. Or maybe you have security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, your resources are not right sized, causing your cost to go up.
Azure Advisor is the centralized service which scans each and every workload and recommends you with best practices to optimize.
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You get recommendations on the following categories
- Cost
- Security
- Reliability
- Operational excellence
- Performance
Let's see a few examples.
1. Cost
As you can see I have two high impact recommendations.
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Let's first check the quick fix
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This VM is not being used at all. We can shut down the VM and reduce our cost.
2. Security
We have multiple security vulnerabilities there
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3. Reliability
It'll show the improvements I can introduce to improve the reliability
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4. Performance
Following are some suggestions
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This allows me to optimize my cloud