Use Azure Advisor and Advisor Score to identify and prioritize opportunities to improve the posture of your workloads. Both services are free to all Azure users and align to the pillars of the Well-Architected Framework.

• Azure 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. It recommends solutions that can help you improve the reliability, security, cost effectiveness, performance, and operational excellence of your Azure resources. Learn more about Azure Advisor.
• Advisor Score is a core feature of Azure Advisor that aggregates Advisor recommendations into a simple, actionable score. This score enables you to tell at a glance if you’re taking the necessary steps to build reliable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions, and to prioritize the actions that will yield the biggest improvement to the posture of your workloads. The Advisor score consists of an overall score, which can be further broken down into five category scores corresponding to each of the Well-Architected pillars. Learn more about Advisor Score.

With Advisor, you can:

• Get proactive, actionable, and personalized best practices recommendations.
• Improve the performance, security, and reliability of your resources, as you identify opportunities to reduce your overall Azure spend.
• Get recommendations with proposed actions inline.

You can access Advisor through the Azure portal. Sign in to the portal, locate Advisor in the navigation menu, or search for it in the All services menu.

The Advisor dashboard displays personalized recommendations for all your subscriptions. You can apply filters to display recommendations for specific subscriptions and resource types. The recommendations are divided into five categories:

• Reliability (formerly called High Availability): To ensure and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications. For more information, see Advisor Reliability recommendations.
• Security: To detect threats and vulnerabilities that might lead to security breaches. For more information, see Advisor Security recommendations.
• Performance: To improve the speed of your applications. For more information, see Advisor Performance recommendations.
• Cost: To optimize and reduce your overall Azure spending. For more information, see Advisor Cost recommendations.
• Operational Excellence: To help you achieve process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability and deployment best practices. . For more information, see Advisor Operational Excellence recommendations.