Cost Advisor

This Advisor is pretty self-explanatory and is probably the most useful one as you learn Azure. It will make recommendations based on the consumption of your resources. There is more to drill into here and you will need to set up a Cloudyn account. Cloudyn is Azure's Cost Management tool and it helps you to do the following:

  • Monitor cloud spend
  • Drive organizational accountability
  • Optimize cloud efficiency

You will be directed to https://azure.cloudyn.com/web-app2/#/azure-registration/intro to create the connection. You will need to be an administrator and subscription owner to configure it, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Cloudyn setup

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