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 Automation	Independent service	Automates IT-centric processes, which are often long-running, using “runbooks” based on PowerShell workflows.
Azure Batch	Independent service	Schedules work in pools of virtual machines for running tasks, such as high-performance computing (HPC) applications, that can be performed in parallel on subsets of input data.
Azure Functions	Azure App Service	Runs code on demand and allows compute resource costs to be incurred only when code is run.