Azure Automation will be revising its service limits in January 2025. Your existing usage will not be impacted. For additional usage beyond the new limits, you will have to create a Support request.
Starting 7th January 2025, Azure Automation will be revising its Service and Subscription limits to ensure fair distribution of cloud resources across all customers. This change is another step towards improving the reliability and performance of the service while optimizing resource utilization. Since the resource requirements vary across organizations and evolve over time, we are empowering customers to configure their quotas based on actual usage.
Revised limits
The current Service and Subscription limits for Azure Automation can be found here.
To start with, we are revising the limits for two resources:
- Maximum number of Automation accounts in a subscription in a region.
- Maximum number of concurrent running jobs at the same instance of time per Automation account
You will get an error message when you exceed the limits mentioned below:
| Resource | Limit | Notes |
| Maximum number of Automation accounts in a subscription in a region |
10
2
1
|
Enterprise and CSP subscriptions would be able to create accounts in any of the regions supported by the service. Pay-as-you-go, Sponsored, MSDN, MPN, Azure Pass subscriptions can create Automation accounts in any of the regions supported by the service. Free trial, Azure for Student, Azure in Open subscriptions can create only one Automation account per region per subscription. Allowed list of regions: EastUS, EastUS2, WestUS, NorthEurope, SoutheastAsia, and JapanWest2 |
| Maximum number of concurrent running jobs at the same instance of time per Automation account per region |
50
10
5 |
Enterprise and CSP subscriptions Pay-as-you-go, Sponsored, MSDN, MPN, Azure Pass subscriptions Free trial, Azure for Student, Azure in Open subscriptions |
Frequently asked questions
When will the new limits come into effect?
New limits would be effective starting 7th January 2025 across all commercial regions. Your patience during the transition period is appreciated.
How do I check my current resource usage?
You will be able to check your usage of Automation accounts and concurrently running jobs through Quotas service on Azure portal or while creating a support request under the category ‘Service and Subscription limits (Quotas)’. Quotas service on Azure portal will be enabled once deployment starts in January 2025.
My current usage is more than the revised limits. What should I do?
Rest assured that your current usage of both resources - Automation accounts and concurrent running jobs - will be honored and will not be impacted. For example, consider you are an Enterprise customer. Your new limit is 10 Automation accounts and current usage is 12 accounts. Even though your usage is higher than the new limit, your usage of 12 accounts would be honored and then considered as your new limit. When you exceed the new limit of 12 accounts, you would get an error.
I need more resources than my current limits. What should I do?
You will get complete control to request for quota increase and decrease based on your changing business requirements. Once the changes are deployed in January 2025, you will be able to check your current usage, current limit and request for quota changes by creating a support request under the category ‘Service and Subscription limits (Quotas)’ for ‘Azure Automation’. Detailed steps to request for quota changes would be shared once deployment starts in January 2025.
Please feel free to reach out to askazureautomation@microsoft.com for any questions or feedback.
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