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My free AWS tier is going to expire in 8 days. I removed every EC2 resource and elastic IP associated with it. Because that is what I recall initializing and experimenting with. I deleted all the roles I created because as I understand it, roles permit AWS to perform actions for AWS services. And yet, when I go to the billing page it shows I have these three services that are in current usage. [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/RvKZc.png

I used the script as recommended by AWS documentation to check for all instances and it shows "no resources found".

Link for script: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager-automation-runbooks/latest/userguide/automation-awssupport-listec2resources.html

I tried searching for each service using the dashboard and didn't get anywhere. I found an S3 bucket, I don't remember creating it but I deleted it anyway, and still, I get the same output.

Any help is much appreciated.

I have created a basic Bicep template to deploy Azure Automation Acount. It contains a Runbook with the Powershell script and the linked Schedule. So far so good. The problem is to assign the Azure Role (Owner, Contributor, Reader) to the Managed Identity of this AA. I have all the needed values but have no idea how to put them together. To assign Azure Role via Bicep Template you should get the principalId of your Managed Identity of this AA which is pretty easy:

I'm trying to deploy multiple python runbooks using Azure Automation Account, the python packages used are the same between the runbooks but every runbook corresponds to a different project or initiative. And I'm looking for some architecture design advise here.

So, my question is: Should I create different automation accounts (cause there's not max limit of automation accounts) for every project, in order to maintain the logics separated?

Or should I use the same Automation Account and create different runbooks inside, and try to group similar runbooks logics into the automation account? (the advantage of the latter is that the python packages are loaded only once in one automation account)

Important note: the access permissions will be the same on every runbook, so, permissions wise, there is not problem in creating different or use the same automation account.

I'm using the azurerm_automation_runbook module to create an Azure Automation Runbook. Below is the code I'm using.

I'm having trouble running the AzurePowerShell@5 task in my Azure pipeline.

I have boiled it down to this simple script:

I'm wondering if there's a way I can define common functions in a separate runbook in Azure Automation? For instance, I've got a logging function that timestamps the messages and exits on errors that I use in multiple runbooks. I'd like to define it once, and then call it from the other runbooks. And if I change it in the future, I only have to change it in one place.

I know I can define parent / child runbooks and call them inline, which led me to wonder if I could split out, for instance, a function definition and then call that runbook from another runbook to "import" the function into the current runbook. So for instance, I have a runbook called "Test-FunctionDefinition" with the following code:

I have this app that I need to execute on a specific Azure VM (GPU heavy) daily. I don't want to pay for the machine running 24/7 and I am looking for a way to automate this. What would be the best approach for this?

I am reading up on Azure Runbooks but I'm not 100% sure if this can be achieved. I was also thinking if scheduling an Azure Devops Pipeline to run and scale up the machine and execute the console app and then automatic scaling down of a machine if the CPU load is low.

This seems like a typical and basic scenario to which I cannot find an easy solution.

New to powershell.. I have 2 Json , the first one gotten from a file, the second one that I am converting after doing a query. I would like to update a value in the tag section of the second files if it happens that values in name section are sames in both json :

json file 1 is created and read/loaded with the below :

Can multiple runbooks run simultaneously in an azure automation account? If yes, how many?

I have checked the microsoft documentation but I couldn't find anything relevant. From my experience, i have seen a runbook can be completed while another is in running status.

But I see that the runbooks are queued. Is there a limit for simultaneous runs? If yes, can it be increased?