Effortless IT automation of cloud and on-premises infrastructure

Azure Automanage offers a unified solution to simplify IT management. With point-and-click simplicity, automate operations and apply consistent best practices across the entire lifecycle of Windows Server and Linux servers in Azure or in hybrid environments enabled by Azure Arc.

• Automated best-practice configuration of virtual machines in Azure or hybrid environments through Azure Arc
• Proactive drift detection and remediation for improved workload uptime
• Automatically applied security baselines for continuous management and security
• Innovative capabilities for optimized management of Windows Server in Azure

Features

• Simplify configuration of virtual machines anywhere - Quickly configure Windows and Linux servers with automatic deployment of Azure services such as Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and familiar tools such as Windows Admin Center. - Choose from predefined, best-practice dev/test and production profiles or create custom configuration profiles of your own. - Configure your Windows and Linux servers in Azure or hybrid environments through Azure Arc.
• Automate operations for continuous security and management at scale - Reduce risk by automating frequent, error-prone tasks such as applying the Microsoft server security baseline to efficiently maintain operational security. - Improve workload uptime by proactively detecting and automatically remediating drift if machines diverge from the desired configuration state.
• Access innovative capabilities for Windows Server on Azure - Patch without rebooting your Windows Server virtual machines with Hotpatch, only on Azure. - Easily migrate your workloads to Azure by extending on-premises IP subnets and preserving the original private IP addresses. - Securely access files when working remotely without a VPN using built-in SMB over QUIC, a secure file-serving protocol.