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Azure Advisor in sovereign clouds

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Azure sovereign clouds enable you to build and digitally transform workloads in the cloud while meeting your security, compliance, and policy requirements.

Azure Government (United States)

The following Azure Advisor recommendation features aren't currently available in Azure Government:

Cost

  • (Preview) Consider App Service stamp fee reserved capacity to save over your on-demand costs.
  • (Preview) Consider Azure Data Explorer reserved capacity to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • (Preview) Consider Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL DW) reserved capacity to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • (Preview) Consider Blob storage reserved capacity to save on Blob v2 and Data Lake Storage Gen2 costs.
  • (Preview) Consider Blob storage reserved instance to save on Blob v2 and Data Lake Storage Gen2 costs.
  • (Preview) Consider Cache for Redis reserved capacity to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • (Preview) Consider Azure Cosmos DB reserved capacity to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • (Preview) Consider Database for MariaDB reserved capacity to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • (Preview) Consider Database for MySQL reserved capacity to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • (Preview) Consider Database for PostgreSQL reserved capacity to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • (Preview) Consider SQL DB reserved capacity to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • (Preview) Consider SQL PaaS DB reserved capacity to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • Consider App Service stamp fee reserved instance to save over your on-demand costs.
  • Consider Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL DW) reserved instance to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • Consider Cache for Redis reserved instance to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • Consider Azure Cosmos DB reserved instance to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • Consider Database for MariaDB reserved instance to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • Consider Database for MySQL reserved instance to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • Consider Database for PostgreSQL reserved instance to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.
  • Consider SQL PaaS DB reserved instance to save over your pay-as-you-go costs.

Operational

  • Add Azure Monitor to your virtual machine (VM) labeled as production.
  • Delete and recreate your pool using a VM size that will soon be retired.
  • Enable Traffic Analytics to view insights into traffic patterns across Azure resources.
  • Enforce 'Add or replace a tag on resources' using Azure Policy.
  • Enforce 'Allowed locations' using Azure Policy.
  • Enforce 'Allowed virtual machine SKUs' using Azure Policy.
  • Enforce 'Audit VMs that don't use managed disks' using Azure Policy.
  • Enforce 'Inherit a tag from the resource group' using Azure Policy.
  • Update Azure Spring Cloud API Version.
  • Update your outdated Azure Spring Cloud SDK to the latest version.
  • Upgrade to the latest version of the Immersive Reader SDK.

Performance

  • Accelerated Networking may require stopping and starting the VM.
  • Arista Networks vEOS Router may experience high CPU utilization, reduced throughput and high latency.
  • Barracuda Networks NextGen Firewall may experience high CPU utilization, reduced throughput and high latency.
  • Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V may experience high CPU utilization, reduced throughput and high latency.
  • Consider increasing the size of your NVA to address persistent high CPU.
  • Distribute data in server group to distribute workload among nodes.
  • More than 75% of your queries are full scan queries.
  • NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP may experience high CPU utilization, reduced throughput and high latency.
  • Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Firewall may experience high CPU utilization, reduced throughput and high latency.
  • Reads happen on most recent data.
  • Rebalance data in Hyperscale (Citus) server group to distribute workload among worker nodes more evenly.
  • Update Attestation API Version.
  • Update Key Vault SDK Version.
  • Update to the latest version of your Arista VEOS product for Accelerated Networking support.
  • Update to the latest version of your Barracuda NG Firewall product for Accelerated Networking support.
  • Update to the latest version of your Check Point product for Accelerated Networking support.
  • Update to the latest version of your Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V product for Accelerated Networking support.
  • Update to the latest version of your F5 BigIp product for Accelerated Networking support.
  • Update to the latest version of your NetApp product for Accelerated Networking support.
  • Update to the latest version of your Palo Alto Firewall product for Accelerated Networking support.
  • Upgrade your ExpressRoute circuit bandwidth to accommodate your bandwidth needs.
  • Use SSD Disks for your production workloads.
  • vSAN capacity utilization has crossed critical threshold.

Reliability

  • Avoid hostname override to ensure site integrity.
  • Check Point Virtual Machine may lose Network Connectivity.
  • Drop and recreate your HDInsight clusters to apply critical updates.
  • Upgrade device client SDK to a supported version for IotHub.
  • Upgrade to the latest version of the Azure Connected Machine agent.

Right size calculations

The calculation for recommending that you should right-size or shut down underutilized virtual machines in Azure Government is as follows:

  • Advisor monitors your virtual machine usage for seven days and identifies low-utilization virtual machines.
  • Virtual machines are considered low utilization if their CPU utilization is 5% or less and their network utilization is less than 2%, or if the current workload can be accommodated by a smaller virtual machine size.

If you want to be more aggressive at identifying underutilized virtual machines, you can adjust the CPU utilization rule on a per subscription basis.

Next steps

For more information about Advisor recommendations, see: