Comparison with serverless automation

Azure Automation and Azure serverless technologies, especially Azure Functions, are quite similar and overlap in terms of functionality. However, these are separate services with different capabilities and pricing.

It is important to understand that Azure Automation is a complete suite for process automation and configuration management, while Azure Functions is meant for implementing business functionality.

Azure Automation is used for automating the processes of provisioning, deprovisioning, management, and operations of infrastructure and configuration management thereafter. On the other hand, Azure Functions is meant for the creation of services, implementing functionality that can be part of microservices and other APIs.

Azure Automation is not meant for unlimited scale, and the load is expected to be moderate, while Azure Functions can handle unlimited traffic and scale automatically.

There are a host of shared assets, such as...