After a busy quarter, a marketing agency's Azure bill is far above expectations. The environment includes many development and test virtual machines that are suspected to sit idle most of the time. The team wants personalized recommendations that identify underutilized resources and suggest concrete ways to reduce spend. Which capability should they use?

1. A. The pricing calculator, which flags resources in the current configuration whose estimated cost is above the account average 💬 A
2. B. Budgets, which recommend which virtual machines should be shut down once the monthly spending threshold is crossed 💬 B
3. C. Azure Advisor cost recommendations, which analyze resource utilization and recommend, for example, shutting down or resizing low-utilization virtual machines ✓ C
4. D. Cost analysis, which automatically proposes configuration changes whenever the costs inside a resource group rise above their recent trend 💬 D

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Resposta correta: Azure Advisor cost recommendations, which analyze resource utilization and recommend, for example, shutting down or resizing low-utilization virtual machines

Referência: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-cost-recommendations