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learn-pr/azure/get-started-azure-advisor/includes/1-introduction.md

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 Do you have an idea where there might be waste or inefficiencies in your cloud environment? Do your cloud deployments follow the latest, proven best practices? For that matter, do you know how you can find out?
 
-When teams build out a cloud workload in Azure, they often enlist different groups of people to set up different services, such as SQL databases and virtual machines. The newness of the cloud and the rapid pace of change adds to this confusion. A typical result might include poorly optimized and misconfigured workloads that can negatively affect your cloud environment. For example, have you sized your virtual machines and SQL databases correctly based on your usage? How secure is your platform?
+When teams build out a cloud workload in Azure, they often enlist different groups of people to set up different services, such as SQL databases and virtual machines. The newness of the cloud and the rapid pace of change adds to this confusion. A typical result might include poorly optimized and misconfigured workloads that can negatively affect your cloud environment. For example, do you know if your virtual machines and SQL databases are sized correctly based on your usage? How secure is your platform?
 
 With Azure Advisor, you can analyze your cloud environment to determine whether your workloads are following documented best practices for cost, security, reliability, performance, and operational excellence. With that information handy, you can then take action to make your workloads more effective and efficient.
 
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 ## Learning objectives
 
-By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
+By the end of this module, you're able to:
 
 - Identify the different areas that Advisor looks at when making its recommendations.
 - Find Advisor in the Azure portal and view the recommendations for each area.
-- Remediate the issues that Advisor's recommendations have surfaced.
+- Remediate the issues that Advisor's recommendations bring to the surface.
 - Understand the Advisor Score and how it can help prioritize recommendations and measure impacts.
 
 The concepts discussed in this module aren't all-inclusive, but they represent some important considerations when you're managing a solution on the cloud. For more details on Azure Advisor, visit the [Azure Advisor documentation page](/azure/advisor/?azure-portal=true).

learn-pr/azure/get-started-azure-advisor/includes/2-recommendations.md

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 | Category | Description |
 |---------|---------|
-| **Cost** | Helps optimize and reduce your overall Azure spend by identifying idle and underutilized resources |
-| **Security** | Integrates with [Microsoft Defender for Cloud](/azure/defender-for-cloud/review-security-recommendations) to identify potential vulnerabilities that can lead to security breaches |
-| **Reliability** | Helps to ensure and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications |
+| **Cost** | Helps optimize and reduce your overall Azure spend by identifying idle and underutilized resources. |
+| **Security** | Integrates with [Microsoft Defender for Cloud](/azure/defender-for-cloud/review-security-recommendations) to identify potential vulnerabilities that can lead to security breaches. |
+| **Reliability** | Helps to ensure and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications. |
 | **Operational excellence** | Makes recommendations for process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment best practices.|
-| **Performance** | Helps improve the speed and responsiveness of your business-critical applications |
+| **Performance** | Helps improve the speed and responsiveness of your business-critical applications. |
 
 ## How does Advisor work?
 
-Think of Azure Advisor as your personalized cloud consultant. It gives you recommendations on best practices to optimize your Azure services' setup and to help you achieve your well-architected goals.
+Think of Azure Advisor as your personalized cloud consultant. It gives you recommendations on best practices to optimize the setup of your Azure services and to help you achieve your well-architected goals.
 
 Advisor analyzes your *resource configuration* and *usage telemetry*, then gives you actionable recommendations that can help you improve your Azure resources' cost effectiveness, performance, reliability, and security, as well as your operational excellence.
 
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 #### Cost
 
-- Resize or shut down underutilized virtual machine instances
-- Eliminate unprovisioned ExpressRoute circuits
-- Delete or reconfigure idle virtual network gateways
+- Resize or shut down underutilized virtual machine instances.
+- Eliminate unprovisioned ExpressRoute circuits.
+- Delete or reconfigure idle virtual network gateways.
 
 #### Reliability
 
-- Ensure application gateway fault tolerance
-- Enable backup to protect your virtual machine data from accidental deletion
-- Configure Traffic Manager endpoints for resiliency
+- Ensure application gateway fault tolerance.
+- Enable backup to protect your virtual machine data from accidental deletion.
+- Configure Traffic Manager endpoints for resiliency.
 
 #### Operational excellence
 
-- Create Azure Service Health alerts to notify you when Azure problems affect you
-- Design your storage accounts to prevent reaching the maximum subscription limit
-- Check if validation environment is enabled
+- Create Azure Service Health alerts to notify you when Azure problems affect you.
+- Design your storage accounts to prevent reaching the maximum subscription limit.
+- Check if validation environment is enabled.
 
 #### Performance
 
-- Improve App Service performance and reliability
-- Use managed disks to prevent disk I/O throttling
-- Improve MySQL connection management
+- Improve App Service performance and reliability.
+- Use managed disks to prevent disk I/O throttling.
+- Improve MySQL connection management.
 
 #### Security
 
-- Virtual-machine management ports should be protected with just-in-time network access control
-- FTPS should be required in your web app
-- Container images should be deployed from trusted registries only
+- Virtual-machine management ports should be protected with just-in-time network access control.
+- FTPS should be required in your web app.
+- Container images should be deployed from trusted registries only.
 
 Advisor integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud to provide security recommendations on the Advisor dashboard's Security tab, and with Microsoft Cost Management to offer cost recommendations on the Advisor dashboard's Cost tab.
 
 ## Remediating issues found by Advisor recommendations
 
-Now that you learned a little about your Advisor recommendations, we show you the typical process you can follow to resolve them.
+Now that you learned a little about your Advisor recommendations, let's look at the typical process you can follow to resolve them.
 
 First, on your Advisor dashboard, you can select a category that shows recommendations to resolve. You can also choose to see **All recommendations**, which shows a list of every Advisor recommendation across all five categories.
 
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 By making a selection, you open a new page that shows details about the recommendations for the chosen category. Under a summary of the recommendations, you see a table that provides more information, such as:
 
-- A linked description of each recommendation
-- The impact level of each recommendation
-- The potential annual savings for fixing each issue
-- The number of resources affected
+- A linked description of each recommendation.
+- The impact level of each recommendation.
+- The potential annual savings for fixing each issue.
+- The number of resources affected.
 
-In addition, on the left side of the page under **Recommendations**, you can select a different category to quickly open a page where you can see the Advisor recommendations for that  selection.
+In addition, on the left side of the page under **Recommendations**, you can select a different category to quickly open a page where you can see the Advisor recommendations for that selection.
 
 :::image type="content" source="../media/azure-advisor-cost-recommendations-preview.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Advisor Performance window with recommendation details." lightbox="../media/azure-advisor-cost-recommendations.png":::
 
 After you select a linked description for a recommendation, a window opens showing some suggestions for actions you can take. At this point in the flow, you have several options for how you want to handle the recommendation.
 
 - You can select a linked **Recommended action** and another page opens that helps you take the necessary steps to resolve the issue.
-- If you'd prefer to handle the recommendation at a later time, you can select **Postpone**. Advisor removes it from the list, but will recommend it again if the issue hasn't been resolved.
+- If you'd prefer to handle the recommendation at a later time, you can select **Postpone**. Advisor removes it from the list, but recommends it again if the issue isn't resolved.
 - If you know that you don't want to resolve that issue, you can select **Dismiss**, and Advisor removes it from the list and no longer shows it as a recommendation for that resource. You can always revisit your dismissed recommendations in the **Postponed & Dismissed** tab under any of your recommendations.
 
    :::image type="content" source="../media/azure-advisor-vm-resize-postpone-dismiss-preview.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing a recommended action in Azure Advisor." lightbox="../media/azure-advisor-vm-resize-postpone-dismiss.png":::

learn-pr/azure/get-started-azure-advisor/includes/3-exercise-review-recommendations.md

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 Now, let's walk through a real-world example to see how Advisor can work in your environment. In this unit, there are guided step-by-step instructions to review and apply some Advisor recommendations to help optimize your Azure workloads.
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> You'll need at least read access to one active Azure subscription with provisioned resources.
+> To follow this exercise, you need at least read access to one active Azure subscription with provisioned resources.
 
 1. First, sign in to the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/?azure-portal=true).
 1. Go to your Advisor dashboard by typing "advisor" in the search bar and then selecting **Advisor** from the list of services.
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    :::image alt-text="Screenshot showing recommended actions you can take." lightbox="../media/azure-advisor-recommendation-rightsize-shutdown-vm-recommended-actions.png" source="../media/azure-advisor-recommendation-rightsize-shutdown-vm-recommended-actions-preview.png" type="content":::
 
    > [!NOTE]
-   > If you're not ready to take action during this exercise, simply close the Azure portal, and no changes will be made to your subscriptions or resources. The only way to undo a recommendation is to take the opposite action.
+   > If you're not ready to take action during this exercise, just close the Azure portal, and no changes are made to your subscriptions or resources. The only way to undo a recommendation is to take the opposite action.
 
 1. Select one of the **Recommended actions** from the list. On the next page, Advisor helps guide you through specific actions that you can take right now to apply the recommendation and resolve the issue.