We are thinking to enable Azure automation account. We have 2 VMs and account will be used only to start(at 9AM) and stop(at 6PM) two VMs daily.
Assuming we have 2VMs, can you please estimate monthly cost for this automation account?
I checked Azure calculator, it's showing some $ per minute after 500min but i am not able to understand how much it will cost if account is used only for few minutes daily. Which minutes it will consider? A month has 60*24*30=43200 minutes and does this mean it will cost $x*(43200-500)?
Our budget is limited so details of the expense will help.
You will only be charged for the times that the jobs take to execute, so if you have 2 runbook executions taking 1 minute each per day, you'll be charged for 2 minutes per day = roughly 62 minutes per month.
Confirmed on the pricing page, and also from personal experience - note 'job execution minute', not 'scheduler minute'.
Process automation is priced per job execution minute