Operations
Azure Advisor
Personalized cost, reliability, performance, security, and operational recommendations.
Key points
- Generates personalized recommendations from deployed resource state and usage.
- Categories include cost, reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence.
- Recommendations need administrator review because business context can change the right action.
Best-known use cases
- Find underused resources with potential cost savings.
- Review reliability improvements for existing workloads.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Advisor vs Cost Management budget: improvement recommendation vs spend threshold tracking.
- Advisor vs Policy: advisory finding vs continuously assigned governance rule.
Key takeaway
Use Azure Advisor to prioritize supported improvements, then evaluate each recommendation against workload requirements.
Related services
- Azure Policy
- Azure resource locks
- Microsoft Cost Management
Relevant exam tasks
- D1.3.S1 — Implement and manage Azure Policy
- D1.3.S2 — Configure resource locks
- D1.3.S6 — Manage costs by using alerts, budgets, and Azure Advisor recommendations