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An organization discovers that several cloud workloads are running on over-provisioned virtual machines and some provisioned networking gateways remain idle without active backends, leading to unnecessary cloud expenditures.
The organization wants a centralized tool that analyzes resource telemetry to provide proactive cost-saving recommendations, such as rightsizing or shutting down underutilized resources.
Which service should the organization use?
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Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that analyzes resource configurations and usage telemetry across your subscriptions to provide actionable best practices and recommendations.
Azure Advisor specifically targets cost efficiency by analyzing runtime metrics and usage patterns to identify idle, underutilized, or over-provisioned resources:
Azure Advisor is the primary, native tool for proactive cost optimization advice in Azure. It delivers automated, telemetry-driven guidance without the administrative overhead of writing custom monitoring queries or deploying third-party governance tools.