Azure Automation Run As accounts are retiring on September 30th, 2023

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Azure Automation Run As accounts are retiring on September 30th, 2023

Deprecation ID: 52c9f2dc-b81e-4807-a205-8571d4cee398
Deadline: Sep 30, 2023
Impacted Services:

• Azure Automation

More information:

• Announcement
• Migration Guide

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

On 30 September 2023, Azure Automation Run As accounts will be retired and you'll need to migrate your runbooks to managed identities for authentication by that date. Managed identities provide the same functionality as Run As accounts, plus:

• Secure authentication to any Azure service that supports Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication.
• Minimized management overhead with easy access to resources.
• Simplified runbooks with no requirement to use multi-line code.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Oct 07, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Sep 30, 2023	Impact is unknown but most likely they will stop working.

Impact

Azure Automation Run As accounts are retiring on September 30th, 2023 and migration to using runbooks with managed identities is required.

Required Action

A migration guide is provided here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

To ensure you're using a supported authentication method, migrate your Azure Automation runbooks from Run As accounts to managed identities by 30 September 2023.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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