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Recommendations

Opportunity summary

Groups open Advisor recommendations by Advisor's own High/Medium/Low business-impact rating; segments count recommendations, not projected dollar savings.2 recommendation(s)
Why this matters

Impact severity reflects Advisor's own rating, not cost — a High-impact item isn't necessarily the most expensive one. Cross-check against the estimated run-rate in the table below, or Rightsizing for VM-specific detail.

  • Good impact (1)
  • Warning impact (1)
  • Serious impact (1)
  • Critical impact (1)

Up to ~$140/mo in current VM run-rate across 1 of 1 right-sizing/shutdown recommendation(s) with a matched, ingested resource.

High-impact share

Percentage of currently open Advisor recommendations rated High business impact by Advisor itself; not a dollar-weighted measure.0 of 2
Why this matters

A high share signals a backlog worth triaging soon, not which specific item to fix first — impact rating alone doesn't reflect cost or effort. Sort the table below by estimated run-rate to prioritize by dollar impact instead.

0 of 2 recommendation(s) carry Advisor's own "High" business impact rating.

Recommendations by theme

Groups open recommendations by remediation theme (right-sizing, reserved instances, unused resources, etc.); bar length is a recommendation count, not a savings estimate.2 theme(s)
Why this matters

A theme with many recommendations often reflects one systemic gap (e.g. no autoscale configured anywhere) rather than many unrelated issues — fixing the root cause once may close several recommendations at once.

Recommendation detail Lists Advisor's exact problem, suggested action, impact, resource, and any supportable current run-rate estimate.
Category Theme Impact Impacted resource Problem Suggested action Last updated Est. current run-rate
Cost Storage optimization Low stbhappdata01 Storage account "stbhappdata01" uses GZRS replication, which costs more than locally redundant storage. Review whether geo-redundancy is required for this data, or switch to LRS/ZRS to reduce cost. 2026-10-24 —
Cost Right-sizing / shutdown Medium vm-bh-app-01 Virtual machine "vm-bh-app-01" has averaged 10.26% CPU, below a typical utilization threshold. Right-size to a smaller SKU or shut this virtual machine down during idle periods to reduce cost. 2026-10-24 ~$140/mo

Run-rate is an estimate at current on-demand retail pricing for the flagged VM's SKU/region (see the Rightsizing page) — not a guaranteed savings figure. Only shown where this recommendation's resource could be matched to ingested VM data.

Savings-realization ledger

A manual record of which recommendation you acted on, when, and the dollar impact you observed — AFP has no reliable way to detect this automatically (a recommendation disappearing from a later scan could mean it was acted on, or that the resource was deleted, or that Advisor re-evaluated differently).0 entry(ies)
Why this matters

Recording entries here builds the real cumulative trend above over time, matching the FinOps Framework's own guidance to track optimization impact against initial estimates.

e.g. "Resized vm-app-01 from D4s_v3 to D2s_v3"

No entries recorded yet. Add one above whenever you act on a recommendation.