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3. Azure Automation If you think you will do a task twice – automate it!
Simplify cloud management with process automation

4. Why Azure Automation? Features include
Save time and money with automation
Eliminate time-consuming, repetitive tasks
Improve reliability and efficiency
Use with Azure and third-party cloud services
Integrate with any service using PowerShell scripts
Get a highly available automation engine
Top usage
Scheduling to Start & Stop the Azure VMs
The Pitch
Save time while lowering overhead costs
Automate all of those frequent, time- consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks.
Azure Automation helps you spend more of your time focused on work that adds business value. By reducing errors and boosting efficiency, it can also help lower your operational costs.

5. Why Should You Care?
Helps to simplify cloud management with process automation Saves time while lowering overhead costs Azure Automation provides Automation and Orchestration as a Service -- a central, secure location for all your automation, that is scalable, reliable and highly-available Azure Automation simplifies automation and configuration across clouds, platforms, and datacenters

6. Process & Desired State Automation to Simplify Cloud & On-Premises IT Management
Optimize and extend existing investments
Integration
Integrate into existing systems with PowerShell integration modules
Build additional PS modules to enable integrating into other systems
Deliver flexible and reliable services
Orchestration
Accelerate time to value with flexible process workflows
Improve service reliability across multiple tools, systems, and department silos
Lower costs and improve predictability
Automation
Enable service owners to focus on work that adds business value
Reduce error-prone manual activities while lowering costs

7. Automation as a Service
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Simplicity
Automate with no installation required
No infrastructure to maintain
Free tier lets you ‘try before you buy’
Velocity
Scale instantly, as your needs change
Get new features frequently & automatically
Ubiquity
Multiple regions, for policy compliance & DR
Integrate ‘behind the firewall’ on-premises
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One Automation Solution for OMS, Azure, 3rd-party clouds and On-Premises
Web portal
Runbooks – PowerShell, PowerShell Workflow, Graphical
Authoring – Portal or ISE
Gallery
Integration modules (cmdlets, configs)
Asset store (secure)
Runbook engine (highly available)
Hybrid runbook workers (on premises)
PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Job execution & DSC node compliance history
Access permissions (RBAC)
Source control integration
REST web service, PowerShell module, C# SDK
Webhooks
Tools to migrate from SC Orchestrator
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9. Web Portal Complete management of your automation resources:
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Web Portal
Complete management of your automation resources:
Create Automation accounts
Import, author, test, and publish runbooks – PS, PSWF, Graphical
Manage assets, schedules, and webhooks
Create hybrid runbook workers
Troubleshoot runbook jobs
Manage DSC configurations
Monitor DSC node compliance
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Assets
Centralized, secure store for data that is commonly used in runbooks and configurations
Credentials
Connections
Variables
Certificates
Modules (cmdlets & DSC resouces)
Schedules
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11. Runbooks PowerShell script runbooks
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Runbooks
PowerShell script runbooks
Leverage your existing knowledge & scripts
Start fast
PowerShell Workflow runbooks
Checkpoint, suspend, resume (reliable execution)
Parallel processing
Graphical runbooks
Visualize process steps and systems affected
Focus on data flow
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12. Pricing Process Automation FREE $0 Basic $ Price per month: FREE
Price per month: $0.002 / minute
Job Run Time: 500 min
Job Run Time: Unlimited
Process Automation
Process Automation is available in Free and Basic tiers. Billing is based on the number of job run time minutes used in the month. Charges for process automation are incurred whenever a job runs. Job minutes are aggregated across geographies.
Desired State Configuration (DSC) Preview
Automation DSC is available in Free and Basic tiers. Billing is based on the number of nodes that are registered with the service. Charges for Automation DSC start when a node is registered with the service and stop when the node is unregistered from the service. A node is any machine whose configuration is managed by DSC. This could be an Azure VM, on-premises VM, physical host or a VM in another public cloud.
Automation DSC is currently in preview and the price below reflects a 50% preview discount.
Desired State Configuration (DSC) Preview
FREE $0
Basic $
Price per month: FREE
Price per month: $3 / node
Number of nodes: 5
Number of nodes: Unlimited

13. Getting Started with Azure Automation
Demo

14. Appendix

15. Resources Azure Automation Home Page Azure Automation Getting Started
Azure Automation Essentials
MVA Training: Automating the Cloud with Azure Automation
Azure Automation and Resource Manager – Part 1
Azure Automation and Resource Manager – Part 2
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) provides the capability to create reusable deployment templates and provide a common way to manage the resources that make up your deployment. ARM is the foundation of the ALM and DevOps tooling being developed by Microsoft and investments in it are ongoing.