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Azure Quickstart - Create an Azure Automation account | Microsoft Docs
This article helps you get started creating an Azure Automation account and running a runbook.
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Create an Azure Automation account

You can create an Azure Automation account through Azure, using the Azure portal, a browser-based user interface allowing access to a number of resources. One Automation account can manage resources across all regions and subscriptions for a given tenant.

This quickstart guides you in creating an Automation account and running a runbook in the account. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free Azure account before you begin.

Sign in to Azure

Sign in to Azure.

Create Automation account

  1. Choose a name for your Azure account. Automation account names are unique per region and resource group. Names for Automation accounts that have been deleted might not be immediately available.

    [!NOTE] You can't change the account name once it has been entered in the user interface.

  2. Click the Create a resource button found in the upper left corner of Azure portal.

  3. Select IT & Management Tools, and then select Automation.

  4. Enter the account information, including the selected account name. For Create Azure Run As account, choose Yes so that the artifacts to simplify authentication to Azure are enabled automatically. When the information is complete, click Create to start the Automation account deployment.

    Enter information about your Automation account in the page

    [!NOTE] For an updated list of locations that you can deploy an Automation account to, see Products available by region.

  5. When the deployment has completed, click All Services.

  6. Select Automation Accounts and then choose the Automation account you've created.

    Automation account overview

Run a runbook

Run one of the tutorial runbooks.

  1. Click Runbooks under Process Automation. The list of runbooks is displayed. By default, several tutorial runbooks are enabled in the account.

    Automation account runbooks list

  2. Select the AzureAutomationTutorialScript runbook. This action opens the runbook overview page.

    Runbook overview

  3. Click Start, and on the Start Runbook page, click OK to start the runbook.

    Runbook job page

  4. After the job status becomes Running, click Output or All Logs to view the runbook job output. For this tutorial runbook, the output is a list of your Azure resources.

Next steps

In this quickstart, you’ve deployed an Automation account, started a runbook job, and viewed the job results. To learn more about Azure Automation, continue to the quickstart for creating your first runbook.

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Automation Quickstart - Create an Azure Automation runbook