Azure Automation, a service from Microsoft, is a powerful tool for automating everyday cloud tasks and making your environment more efficient and hands-free. As of 2025, Azure Automation offers two core capabilities: Process Automation and Scheduling. Process Automations uses scripts called Runbooks, which are the building blocks of automation. Runbooks can be written in PowerShell (most common) or Python and can be transformed into a Job, which can be monitored for failure or an issue. The most common automation task involves managing virtual machine schedules, especially when VMs are only needed during business hours. In this demo, we use runbooks combined with tags to automatically start and stop only the virtual machines labeled for office-hour usage. The next step is to schedule this schedule so you don’t have to manually trigger it.
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