Cost optimization enhancements now available in Azure Advisor

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Published

Aug 19, 2020

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • August 2020
    General Availability

Product

Azure Advisor

Tag

Services

Category

Management and governance

Description

Azure Advisor now features the following enhancements to its best practice recommendations to help you cost optimize your Azure resources:

    • New right-size recommendations for underutilized MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL database server resources (learn more).
    • New reserved instances recommendations for several resource types - Cosmos DB, SQL PaaS, Blob storage, App Service Stamp Fee, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Synapse analytics (learn more).
    • Data for CPU, memory and network utilization numbers (P95 number based on 7 days of data) is now available via Advisor API and Advisor in Azure resource graph.

Advisor documentation

Advisor in the Azure portal