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About Automate all of those frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks. Azure Automation service helps you focus on work that adds business value. By reducing errors and boosting efficiency, it also helps to lower your operational costs. Update Windows and Linux systems across hybrid environments. Monitor update compliance across Azure, on-premises, and other cloud platforms for Windows and Linux. Schedule deployments to orchestrate the installation of updates within a defined maintenance window. Author and manage PowerShell configurations, import configuration scripts, and generate node configurations—all in the cloud. Use Azure Configuration Management to monitor and automatically update machine configuration across physical and virtual machines, Windows, or Linux—in the cloud or on-premises. & more	About It's friendly to any combinations of local and remote execution, push and pull style of management, or imperative and declarative approach. Instead of forcing any specific model on you, it trusts you to be in the best position to decide what to automate and how, allowing you to build the automation tool your situation requires. Rex runs locally, even if managing remotes via SSH. This means it's instantly usable, without big rollout processes or anyone else to convince, making it ideal and friendly for incremental automation. This means whenever you reach the limitations of the built-in Rex features, a powerful programming language and module ecosystem is always at your fingertips to seamlessly extend it with modules from CPAN or with your own code. We believe in the idea of open source. So Rex, and all its parts are released under the Apache 2.0 license. You're invited to join the community to make Rex better and better.
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Audience Businesses looking to automate, configure and install updates across hybrid environments	Audience Cloud Infrastructure Automation solution for IT teams
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
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Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Azure Automation is a great cloud based service for automating your operations on any cloud platform. It is a great time saver and reduces overhead costs by a decent margin. It also simplifies configuration management and can be integrated with a lot of services for more efficient use. Cons Limitation on runbook execution time is the only con worth a mention.
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Company Information Microsoft Founded: 1975 United States azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/automation/	Company Information (R)?ex www.rexify.org
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Categories Cloud Infrastructure Automation Supported IT Management Supported Runbook Automation Supported	Categories Cloud Infrastructure Automation Supported

Integrations Audit Prodigy Supported Azure Backup Supported Azure Marketplace Supported Barracuda SSL VPN Supported Beats Supported Commvault Cloud Supported Commvault HyperScale X Supported Cyral Supported FAB Builder Supported MailMeter Supported Microsoft Power Platform Supported Okera Supported Open eLMS Supported PowerShell Supported Runbook Studio Supported Smart IVR Supported Supportbench Supported Thales Sentinel Supported anecdotes Supported eTrainCenter Supported Show More Integrations View All 25 Integrations	Integrations Audit Prodigy Not Supported Azure Backup Not Supported Azure Marketplace Not Supported Barracuda SSL VPN Not Supported Beats Not Supported Commvault Cloud Not Supported Commvault HyperScale X Not Supported Cyral Not Supported FAB Builder Not Supported MailMeter Not Supported Microsoft Power Platform Not Supported Okera Not Supported Open eLMS Not Supported PowerShell Not Supported Runbook Studio Not Supported Smart IVR Not Supported Supportbench Not Supported Thales Sentinel Not Supported anecdotes Not Supported eTrainCenter Not Supported Show More Integrations
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