Microsoft Azure Quick Review Microsoft Corporation

Azure Quick Review (azqr) is a command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to analyze Azure resources and identify those that may or may not comply with Azure best practices and recommendations. It helps users ensure their Azure environments meet established standards for security, performance, and cost-efficiency.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Recommendations: Analyzes resources using three types of recommendations:
  • Azure Resource Graph (ARG) queries from the Azure Proactive Resiliency Library v2 (APRL).
  • Azure Resource Manager (ARM) rules built with the Azure Golang SDK.
  • Orphan resource detection via ARG queries from the Azure Orphan Resources project.
• Detailed Output: Results are exported to an Excel file containing multiple sheets, including recommendations, impacted resources, resource types, inventory, Azure Advisor insights, Microsoft Defender for Cloud recommendations, and more.
• Cost Analysis: Includes a detailed breakdown of costs associated with scanned subscriptions over the past three months.
• Power BI Integration: Generates a Power BI template to visualize scan results, aiding in deeper analysis and reporting.
• Customizable Output: Supports generating CSV files and offers options to control data obfuscation (e.g., hiding subscription IDs) for enhanced privacy.

Audience & Benefit: Ideal for IT professionals, cloud architects, and DevOps engineers who need to ensure Azure environments adhere to best practices. By using azqr, users can optimize resource configurations, reduce operational costs, enhance security compliance, and improve overall environment resilience.

Available via winget for easy installation on Windows systems.