Alignment & Remediation Report

This report repackages AFP's cost/utilization findings into a structured work order you can hand to an external IT contractor or managed service provider — AFP itself stays read-only and never makes these changes for you. Every current Advisor recommendation and Rightsizing candidate is included below; where a monthly-savings estimate can't be computed, the row explains why instead of omitting it. Two rows also surface Azure's own native alert types AFP doesn't (or can't) surface results for directly — Cost Anomaly Alerts and Reservation Utilization Alerts — with instructions for enabling them in the Azure Portal.

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Target resource	Action required	Current → target spec	Business justification	Est. monthly savings
6a1b2c3d-4e5f-4061-8a2b-3c4d5e6f7a8b Subscription-level configuration	Enable Azure Cost Anomaly Alerts	Not configured → Alert type: Anomaly	Azure Cost Management's built-in ML-based anomaly detection (free, no build required) flags an unusual daily spend pattern against a 60-day baseline before it shows up on the invoice. AFP confirmed no scheduled action of this kind exists yet for this subscription. AFP stays read-only and cannot create this alert rule or read back its detection results once created (Microsoft delivers them by email only) — enable it directly: Azure Portal → Cost Management + Billing → Cost alerts → + Add → Alert type: Anomaly.	N/A Prevents unexpected spend surprises; Azure does not publish a projected-savings figure for this alert type.
6a1b2c3d-4e5f-4061-8a2b-3c4d5e6f7a8b Subscription-level configuration	Consider enabling native Reservation Utilization Alerts	Status unknown — needs a billing-profile-scope permission AFP doesn't hold → Alert type: Reservation utilization	Azure's native reservation-utilization alert rule notifies you when purchased reservation commitment goes underused — distinct from AFP's own computed utilization view on the Reservations page, which stays as-is. This alert rule lives at billing-account/billing-profile scope, not subscription scope, so AFP cannot detect whether one already exists without a new Billing Profile Reader-tier grant (see docs/architecture/security-rbac.md's "Fifth permission" section) — enable/review it directly: Azure Portal → Cost Management + Billing (billing profile scope) → Cost alerts → + Add → Alert type: Reservation utilization.	N/A Prevents unexpected spend surprises; Azure does not publish a projected-savings figure for this alert type.
6a1b2c3d-4e5f-4061-8a2b-3c4d5e6f7a8b rg-blue-harbor-prod-app ›stbhappdata01	Review whether geo-redundancy is required for this data, or switch to LRS/ZRS to reduce cost.	Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts: stbhappdata01	Storage account "stbhappdata01" uses GZRS replication, which costs more than locally redundant storage.	N/A Azure Advisor does not provide a dollar estimate for this recommendation category — see docs/architecture/finops-capability-mapping.md's Precedent research convention.
6a1b2c3d-4e5f-4061-8a2b-3c4d5e6f7a8b rg-blue-harbor-prod-app ›vm-bh-app-01	Deploy the workload across availability zones or document an equivalent resilience design.	Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines: vm-bh-app-01	Business-critical virtual machine "vm-bh-app-01" has no modeled availability-zone placement.	N/A Azure Advisor does not provide a dollar estimate for this recommendation category — see docs/architecture/finops-capability-mapping.md's Precedent research convention.
6a1b2c3d-4e5f-4061-8a2b-3c4d5e6f7a8b rg-blue-harbor-prod-app ›vm-bh-app-01	Configure diagnostic settings and route platform logs and metrics to the approved monitoring destination.	Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines: vm-bh-app-01	Business-critical virtual machine "vm-bh-app-01" has no modeled diagnostic-settings evidence.	N/A Azure Advisor does not provide a dollar estimate for this recommendation category — see docs/architecture/finops-capability-mapping.md's Precedent research convention.
6a1b2c3d-4e5f-4061-8a2b-3c4d5e6f7a8b rg-blue-harbor-prod-app ›vm-bh-app-01	Right-size to a smaller SKU or shut this virtual machine down during idle periods to reduce cost.	Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines: vm-bh-app-01	Virtual machine "vm-bh-app-01" has averaged 10.69% CPU, below a typical utilization threshold.	N/A Azure Advisor does not provide a dollar estimate for this recommendation category — see docs/architecture/finops-capability-mapping.md's Precedent research convention.