Enterprise Azure & AI Engineering Playbooks

  FinOps Guide Azure Advisor Cost Management Resource Graph How to Find Underutilized and Orphaned Azure Resources with Azure Advisor and Cost Management Azure Advisor will find your unattached disks and oversized VMs, and it'll stop right there. It won't find the disk snapshot whose parent disk was deleted eighteen months ago, the empty resource group still accumulating charges, or the stopped VM whose "off" compute is quietly overshadowed by a disk that never stopped billing. Advisor is the first pass, not the whole audit — and knowing exactly where it stops looking is what actually finds the rest of the waste. 25-35% of spend Industry studies consistently estimate this share of cloud spending goes to unused or underutilized resources Advisor is manual Advisor is explicitly point-in-time — it surfaces recommendations but takes no action; someone still has to act on every one Stopped ≠ free A stopped VM's compute charges pause, but its attached disk keeps billing...