Retirement Plans for Azure Automation Update Management There's an added incentive for organizations to start using Azure Update Manager (although see the bulleted caveat above).

Since Azure Automation Update Management was free to all servers, including Azure Arc, this represents a significant cost increase for customers with large server populations outside Azure.

Known as UMC for short, it’s the latest iteration of an existing offering known as Azure Automation Update Management, which is a handy, if somewhat complicated, platform for handling updates on ...

Azure Update Manager is free for machines hosted on Azure or Azure Stack HCI. For Arc-enabled servers, it's chargeable up to $5/server/month". Since Azure Automation Update Management was free to ...