Consuming platform units

Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM consume platform units per deployed machine. The rate depends on your negociated platform units amount for a Standard machine/month.

Once you create an Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM, the negociated platform units are consumed. To ensure continous operation throughout the months, we keep track of how many platform units your cloud machines need for the next month, and we internally reserve them. At the beginning of each billing month, we automatically deduct the necessary platform units for your existing VMs from the monthly platform unit pool.

For this reason, you could find that the platform unit amount for a tenant can be lower than you would expect at the start of the month.

For example, consider a tenant with an allocation of 10,000 platform units. If this tenant maintains three VM standard machines as of May 31st, each requiring 1,200 platform units, then on June 1st, a total of 3,600 platform units (3 machines x 1,200 platform units/machine) is automatically deducted from your tenant. This results in an available balance of 6,400 platform units for June.

Deletion of an Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM machine during the month does not refund the platform units consumed to create it. However, for the rest of that month, you can create another similar VM machine without using any extra platform units. Once platform units are used, they allow one VM machine to run for the entire month, and are not bound to a specific instance.

To lower the monthly platform unit usage for your current virtual machines, you can delete a VM before the current month ends. This prevents the reservation and subsequent consumption of platform units for that machine from the following month allocation.