Run unattended automations with hosted machine group

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Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	May 27, 2022	-	Dec 5, 2022

Business value

Users can quickly and easily run desktop flows using fully managed virtual machines. This feature also allows customers to dynamically scale up and down the virtual machine used to run their automation.

Feature details

We're taking the next step in our RPA journey with the launch of Power Automate hosted machine groups (formerly known as hosted RPA bots). As a true software as a service (SaaS) for RPA, unattended RPA bots can now be created and automatically scaled across hosted virtual machines powered by Microsoft Azure.

Gone are the days of strenuous approval cycles and costly deployment. With Power Automate’s hosted machine groups, you can create a group of bots by setting up basic parameters and use it to get virtual machines scaled automatically for your unattended RPA scenarios—with no Azure subscription required.

Power Automate will handle every aspect of machine management for you, helping focus your time where it’s needed most.

See also

Hosted machine group (docs)