Azure Automation · Rate Limits

Microsoft Azure Automation Rate Limits

Microsoft Azure Automation Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Azure Automation on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-11-05.

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, including Concurrent running jobs per Automation account (Enterprise and CSP) — Maximum number of concurrent running jobs at the same instance of time per Automation account 50; New jobs submitted per Automation account — Maximum number of new jobs that can be submitted every 30 seconds per Azure Automation account 100; Active Automation accounts per subscription per region (Enterprise and CSP) — Maximum number of active Automation accounts in a subscription in a region 10.

Limit state is signalled in the x-ms-ratelimit-remaining-subscription-reads, x-ms-ratelimit-remaining-subscription-deletes, and Retry-After response headers.

Tagged areas include Automation, Configuration Management, Runbooks, Update Management, and Microsoft Azure.

3 Limits x-ms-ratelimit-remaining-subscription-readsx-ms-ratelimit-remaining-subscription-deletesRetry-After
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-11-05 — learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/ma....
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Limits

Concurrent running jobs per Automation account (Enterprise and CSP) per-automation-accountEnterprise and CSP
Maximum number of concurrent running jobs at the same instance of time per Automation account 50
New jobs submitted per Automation account per-automation-account
Maximum number of new jobs that can be submitted every 30 seconds per Azure Automation account 100
Job_Create
· per 30 seconds
Active Automation accounts per subscription per region (Enterprise and CSP) per-subscription-regionEnterprise and CSP
Maximum number of active Automation accounts in a subscription in a region 10

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