- Get proactive, actionable and personalized best practice recommendations from Azure
Advisor
- Improve the performance, security and high availability of your resources through
recommended actions.
- Find ideal opportunities to reduce cost of your current environments - ANS - Azure
Advisor Features
A collection of notification preferences defined by the owner of an Azure subscription.
Azure Monitor and Service Health alerts use these to notify users that an alert has been
triggered, it can also be configured to take subsequent actions to help correct the
problem that the alert has detected. - ANS - Action Group
A collection of policy definitions that are tailored towards achieving a singular
overarching goal. Initiative definitions simplify managing and assigning policy
definitions. They simplify by grouping a set of policies as one single item. For example,
you could create an initiative titled Enable Monitoring in Azure Security Center, with a
goal to monitor all the available security recommendations in your Azure Security
Center. - ANS - Initiative Definition
A distributed network of servers that can efficiently delivered to uses. They will store
cached content on edge servers that are close to end-users. They are typically used to
deliver static content such as images, stylesheets, documents, client-side scripts and
HTML files. - ANS - Azure Content Delivery Network
A feature of Azure Monitor, is an extensible Application Performance Management
(APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms. Use it to monitor your live web
application. It will automatically detect performance anomalies. It includes powerful
analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users actually do
with your app. It's designed to help you continuously improve performance and usability.
- ANS - Application Insights
, A feature that contains a list of security rules allowing or denying inbound or outbound
network traffic, it can be associated either with a Network Subnet or a Network
Interface. - ANS - Network Security Groups
A good way to keep track of your resources is through tagging them. Each "Tag"
consists of a Name and a Key Value Pair, such as
"Environment" : "Production" where you could tag all your resources that are in
production. Tags applied to the resource group are not inherited by the resources in that
resource group. - ANS - Tagging Resources
A logical container used to group different Azure services within it. Some things to
consider when creating a resource group is:
- Grouping resources based on lifecycle and security, could be considered a best
practice.
- A resource can only belong to one resource group.
- Resource Groups can't be renamed.
- Resource Groups can contain many different types of resources or services.
- Resources that are inside of a resource group can be located in a different region.
- Resource Groups cost nothing, you can have as many or as little of them as you wish.
- ANS - Resource Group
a low-cost option for protecting your data from local hardware failure. However if a
disaster occurs to the entire data center all replicas might be unrecoverable - ANS -
Local Redundant Storage
A management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and
development infrastructure with configuration as code. - ANS - PowerShell DSC
A personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your
Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and
then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness,
performance, high availability, and security of your Azure resources. - ANS - Azure
Advisor
A policy definition that has been assigned to take place within a specific scope. This
scope could range from a management group to a resource group. The term scope
refers to all the resource groups, subscriptions, or management groups that the policy
definition is assigned to. Policy assignments are inherited by all child resources. This
design means that a policy applied to a resource group is also applied to resources in