Azure Job Scheduling Solutions

Several solutions are available to trigger and schedule job executions using a centralized service running in Azure data centers. Differences include whether the job is triggered and run outside of the job service or run within the service, the types of code that can be used to implement jobs, scalability, and pricing. Third parties offer job-scheduling services, and developers often implement custom scheduling agents.

Solution	Associated With	Description
Azure Scheduler	Independent service	Invokes HTTP/S endpoints and sends task requests to Azure Storage Queues.
Azure WebJobs	Azure App Service	Runs background processing tasks required by applications running on Azure App Service without delaying incoming site traffic. Supported script types include .EXE, PowerShell, PHP, and Node.js. (Uses Azure Scheduler in its implementation.)
Azure Functions	Azure App Service	Runs code on demand and allows compute resource costs to be incurred