3.4.2 Describe the Purpose of Azure Advisor

Description of the purpose of Azure advisor.

Azure Advisor makes recommendations to improve the reliability, security and performance of your Azure resources. The Advisor suggests actions you can take right away, postpone or dismiss. The Advisor dashboard shows personalised recommendations for all subscriptions. The recommendations are divided into five categories:

• Reliability: Ensure and improve continuity of business-critical applications.

• Security: Detect threats and vulnerabilities that could lead to security breaches.

• Performance: Improve speed of applications.

• Operational Excellence: Achieve process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability and deployment best practices.

• Cost: Optimise and reduce spending.