Automation
Simplify cloud management with process automation.
Overview
Azure Automation delivers a cloud-based automation, operating system updates, and configuration service that supports consistent management across your Azure and non-Azure environments. It includes process automation, configuration management, update management, shared capabilities, and heterogeneous features.
Key Resources
| Homepage: | https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/automation/ |
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| Pricing: | https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/automation/ |
| SLA: | https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/automation/ |
| Newsfeed: | RSS |
News
| Date | News |
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| 12/3/2025 |
Introduction
High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads are complex, requiring precise job submission scripts and careful resource management. Manual scripting for platforms like OpenFOAM is...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Transforming Business Automation with Intelligent, Collaborative Multi-Agentic workflows!
TL;DR
Agent Loop is now Generally Available in Azure Logic Apps Standard, turning Logic Apps platform...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Azure SRE Agent offers intelligent and context aware automation for IT operations. Enhanced by customer feedback from our preview, the SRE Agent has evolved into an extensible platform to...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Today at Microsoft Ignite 2025, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Azure Red Hat OpenShift reaches General Availability (GA), unlocking a unified platform where enterprise IT teams can run...
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| 11/17/2025 |
Test automation has come a long way, from scripted flows to self-healing and now AI-driven testing. With the introduction of Model Context Protocol (MCP), Playwright can now interact with AI...
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| 11/14/2025 |
Table of Contents
Introduction
Our Commitment to Innovation in Key HPC/EDA Areas
Most Effective Price/Performance for Any-Size Workload
Large volume breakthrough mode
Large volumes up to 7.2 PiB...
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| 11/6/2025 |
Table of Contents
Introduction
How Azure NetApp Files cache volumes work
Azure NetApp Files cache volume is EDA workflow ready
Conclusion
Next step
Learn more
Introduction
Electronic Design...
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| 10/14/2025 |
Table of Contents
Abstract
From silicon to speed: How Azure NetApp Files powers EDA's future today
The Reason: Why Azure NetApp Files for EDA workloads
Unmatched Performance and Scale for...
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| 10/6/2025 |
In this issue:
Ace Aviator of the Month
News from our product group
News from our community
Ace Aviator of the Month
October Ace Aviator: Robin Wilde
Robin Wilde - Business and Marketing...
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| 9/29/2025 |
Securing AI Workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Purview and Sentinel in Azure Landing Zones
In this blog, we’ll cover:
Why AI Landing Zones matter.
Security threats specific to AI workloads.
Mapping Azure security services into AI Landing Zone design areas.
A reference architecture...
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| 9/25/2025 |
Governance Principles
Least Privilege: Grant only the permissions required for each role.
Segregation of Duties (SoD): Separate responsibilities for build, deploy, operate, and...
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| 9/15/2025 |
Introduction
During Microsoft Build 2025, there was some great content shared introducing Agentic AI modernisation. This post from Ikenna Okeke does a great job of summarising the modernisation...
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| 9/9/2025 |
We've reached another exciting milestone in our automation journey, after introducing Agent loop at Build this year. We're excited to announce enhancements that make Azure Logic Apps the...
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| 8/13/2025 |
After a brief hiatus, Azure Automation is resuming deployments of the revised Service and Subscription limits from August 11, 2025. This update will ensure fair distribution of cloud resources...
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| 7/25/2025 |
In today’s fast-paced software development cycles, manual testing often becomes a significant bottleneck. Our team was facing a growing backlog of test cases that required repetitive manual...
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| 7/24/2025 |
A discussion on Model Context Protocol:
Part 1 - Why is there a need for MCP Link part 1
Part 2 - What MCP is, including its architecture and core components Link part 2
Part 3 - A demo of MCP —...
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| 7/10/2025 |
Azure Automation is pleased to announce a series
of releases:
General
Availability of in-support PowerShell 7.4 and Python 3.10 runbooks
Runtime
Environment GA, enabling customers to
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| 6/26/2025 |
Overview
Semiconductor (or Electronic Design Automation [EDA]) companies prioritize reducing time to market (TTM), which depends on how quickly tasks such as chip design validation and...
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| 6/25/2025 |
Ever wished your code reviews could be faster, more consistent, and maybe even… automated? In this quest, you’ll build a smart code review system powered by AI, designed to catch issues and share...
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| 6/20/2025 |
Generative AI has been the buzz across engineering, science and consumer applications, including EDA. It was the centerpiece of the keynotes at both SNUG and CadenceLive, and it will feature...
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