Microsoft announces Azure Advisor, a recommendation engine for managing Azure resources

Microsoft yesterday announced the public preview of Azure Advisor, a personalized recommendation engine that provides proactive best practices guidance for optimally configuring your Azure resources. To access Azure Advisor, login to the Azure portal. Pick your subscription and click on the Get recommendations button.

Azure Advisor analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry to detect risks and potential issues. It then draws on Azure best practices to recommend solutions that will reduce your cost and improve the security, performance, and reliability of your applications. In this blog post, we will do a quick tour of Azure Advisor and discuss how it can help optimize your Azure resources.

Read more about Azure Advisor here.