Many cloud applications need to support the ability to automate the creation, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of its components. The Azure Management Libraries and Azure PowerShell Cmdlets allow this type of automation by providing convenient client wrappers around the Azure management REST APIs. This session will introduce Azure Management Libraries and the Azure PowerShell Cmdlets, and demonstrate how they can be used to dynamically create Web Sites, databases, virtual machines, storage accounts, and any other asset available in the Azure platform. If you’re looking for ways to automate your dev/test environment creation and destruction or you’re thinking of implementing a SaaS-based application in the cloud, this session will introduce you to the latest arsenal in the Azure SDK and how you can use it automate everything.