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Last updated May 19, 2025

Platform units calculus example

This example demonstrates how to calculate platform units requirements for different types of cloud robots (VM and Serverless) across three tenants within an organization. It considers number of machines, usage time, and platform units rates for each type of cloud robot. The total cost is calculated for a Production environment.

Let's understand the consumption meter for cloud robots:

  • Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM: These machines consume a fixed number of platform units per month per machine. In this example, one VM Standard machine consumes 1,200 platform units/month.

  • Automation Cloud™ Robots - Serverless: These machines consume platform units based on their estimated duration and machine size. The cost is calculated per minute. In this example, a Medium serverless machine was negociated at 0.8 platform units/minute.

Level

Tenant requirements

Negociated platform units amount

Total platform units required

Tenant 1

  • 2 x Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM Standard machines

  • 1 x Automation Cloud™ Robots - Serverless machine

    • Estimated duration: 600 minutes (10 hours) / month

    • Machine size: Medium

  • One Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM Standard machine negociated at 1,200 platform units/month.

  • One Automation Cloud™ Robots - Serverless Medium machine negociated at 0.8 platform units/min

  • VM: 2 x 1,200 = 2,400 platform units/month

  • Serverless: 600 x 0.8 =480 platform units/month

  • Total: 2,880 platform units/month

Tenant 2

  • 1 x Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM Standard machines

  • One Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM Standard machine negociated at 1,200 platform units/month.

  • VM: 1 x 1,200 = 1,200 platform units/month

  • Total: 1,200 platform units/month

Tenant 3

  • 5 x Automation Cloud™ Robots - Serverless machine

    • Estimated duration: 180 minutes (3 hours) daily on business days

    • Machine size: Medium

  • One Automation Cloud™ Robots - Serverless Medium machine negociated at 0.8 platform units/min

Because the number of business days in a month varies, we consider the maximum number of 23 business days:

  • Serverless: 23 x 180 x 0.8 =3,312 platform units/month

  • Total: 3,312 platform units/month

Organization

  • 3 x Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM Standard machines

  • 6 x Automation Cloud™ Robots - Serverless machine

    • Estimated duration: 600 (permonth)+180 minutes (per day, for 23 days)

    • Machine size: Medium

  • One Automation Cloud™ Robots - VM Standard machine negociated at 1,200 platform units/month.

  • One Automation Cloud™ Robots - Serverless Medium machine negociated at 0.8 platform units/min

Cost for all tenants: 2,880 + 1,200 + 3,312

Total requirement for organization: 7,392 platform units/ month

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