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Intelligent Advisor:What is Intelligent Advisor?

Last Updated:Jun 10, 2026

Intelligent Advisor is a cloud architecture inspection and optimization platform. Built on the Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework and best practices from Alibaba Cloud technical account managers (TAMs), it uses preset inspection rules to detect risks and suggest solutions across stability, cost optimization, and capacity scenarios.

Benefits

Comprehensive coverage

Intelligent Advisor supports 20+ cloud services and nearly 300 inspection rules, with ongoing expansion for comprehensive risk detection.

Scenario-specific inspection

Intelligent Advisor provides scenario-specific inspection for stability, cost, and usage, with deep risk analysis for targeted optimization.

Multi-account support

Intelligent Advisor lets you view inspection reports across multiple Alibaba Cloud accounts.

Best practices

Intelligent Advisor incorporates best practices from Alibaba Cloud TAMs and continuously improves based on customer service experience.

Features

Module

Description

Feature

Details

General inspection

Intelligent Advisor scans resources against inspection rules and generates risk results and alerts.

Overview

Displays health scores, risk categories, a risk to-do list, and historical overview based on the latest multidimensional inspection results.

Multidimensional inspection

Inspects risks across five dimensions — security compliance, performance efficiency, business stability, cost optimization, and service restrictions — covering 20+ services and 300+ rules based on the Well-Architected Framework.

Inspection report

Export and subscribe to inspection reports for routine O&M to stay informed about risks.

Risk operations

Provides a risk to-do list and inspection whitelist to help you detect, track, and manage risks.

Dedicated governance

Intelligent Advisor provides scenario-specific inspection for stability, cost, and usage, with deep risk analysis for targeted optimization.

Stability inspection

Performs risk inspection and analysis based on Alibaba Cloud stability events across services. Results are displayed on a timeline for historical analysis.

Cost optimization

Analyzes resource utilization, idle resources, billing methods, and resource iterations to identify cost savings.

Usage analysis

Collects and analyzes core metrics across services within a specified time range. Displays load statistics against thresholds to help evaluate and improve resource utilization.

Resources and historical risks

Intelligent Advisor synchronizes resource data and historical risk records for centralized viewing and management.

My resources

Synchronizes and displays resources for the current account, including basic information and status. Navigate to the related console for detailed management.

Historical risks

Query and export historical inspection records to trace and review past risks.

Service linkage

Intelligent Advisor provides various service linkage capabilities. You can purchase related services to use more features.

Support plan

Authorize Alibaba Cloud TAMs to use Intelligent Advisor for tailored cloud resource solutions and optimization recommendations.

Architecture consulting

Combines Intelligent Advisor with Alibaba Cloud Well-Architected Framework consulting for complete, comprehensive, and custom architecture consulting suggestions and optimization solutions.