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Joseph B.

Automation Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/28/2020

"Azure Advisor - Good Enough"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Advisor?

The overview of costs is handy although isn't the best on the market, it only gives estimates and not real time costs which for small companies or learners with no funding can be a pain as they can suddenly be hit with a big bill even after using the billing forecasting tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Advisor?

Budget tools don't automatically jump into action and have on occasion exceeded their limits that have been set when I've used them. Luckily I don't have a boss who is strict with budgets but again if it was a small company or somebody who was financially unstable this could cause trouble. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Advisor:

There's nothing to say here really as if you're using Azure you have to use it. Just be aware of billing basically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Advisor solving and how is that benefiting you?

My main use for it is to keep track of costs and performance along with viewing activities of users within Azure AD. The Azure AD advisor features are great and I'm alerted immediately if anything suspicious is detected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AA

Verified User in Accounting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/14/2020

"Azure Advisor"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Advisor?

The simplicity and aggregate view of the recommendation, for your environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Advisor?

Very minor, however, an easier way to navigate back to the main Advisor console after navigating down one recommendation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Advisor:

If you have it available on your portal, take a look at it. You may find valuable resources that can reduce costs and systems that need immediate attention to address. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Advisor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reassessing costs of systems and ensuring systems are safe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Muhammad Fahad B.

Research Intern

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/27/2019

"All resources analyzed and optimized under the hood"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Advisor?

For our workload where we have multiple virtual machines to benchmark and compile, Advisor comes in pretty handy. It automatically analyzes usage patterns and suggests recommendations to optimize behavior of all resources to reduce costs and increase productivity. The best thing is you can set up optimization profiles, based on improving cost, performance, security or availability. And of all this comes free, without any extra cost. Talk about savings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Advisor?

It pretty comes up as a standard default with Azure portal. And it's included with your subscription, free of cost. All what the service does is offer recommendations, it is up to the user to take actions against them. So there's honestly no dislike and downside on using the service. It can be turned off too if that's what you require (honestly you wouldn't do that, recommendations never hurt). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Advisor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Throughout the whole portal. It's integral part of managing all resources, whether it's terminating unused VMs, performance constraints, or turning down some resources to reduce effective cost per hour. All I can say is, it has enabled us to efficiently manage our resources across all projects and workloads. And oh, security recommendations are sweet. If there's a vulnerability or a potential threat, it literally guides you to the necessary steps to mitigate it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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alfredo p.

Freelance Software Developer

Program Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/30/2018

"Useful help for you projects"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Advisor?

The one of the best thing it is free, but the best of best is ther four types of recommendations which this tool gives cost, security, high avability and performance, and are organized by type you can read a detailed information about each one, and follow the steps to improve your app, and thats just amazing, Azure advistor does an exploration and studying of your app learn from it, and teach you very well how to make it better, is very intuitive and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Advisor?

Sometimes is required a long time to recollect information about your app about one or two weeks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Advisor:

It is free, so there is not reason why not to use it, if you are Azure user, is very useful, but at the end of the day you decide what change to do, you can skip whatever you want, i've followed the most of recommendations and everything went perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Advisor solving and how is that benefiting you?

This tool helped me many times, there is always something to improve, and this tool makes easier the way to discover it, the most useful of the features is the cost recommendations because you can have your app running in the most optimized cost. The security and performance recommendations are useful also, you can find vulnerabilities or spikes of high latency and fix them in a short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UC

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/23/2019

"Very helpful for our projects"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Advisor?

It is a best feature in Azure.It helps us to improve availability, enhance protection, optimize performance of your Azure resources, and maximize the budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Advisor?

I could not find the anything that i dislike now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.