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Best practices for Power Automate with service account
Holy Crap! I just googled [Binged] how to go about setting up a service account for my flow (that is used department wide) and was lead to this page...but my understanding now is that not only do I need a separate license (which is understandable for the service account), but I need one for EACH TIME my flow runs?!
In my mind the flow is the Power Automate I created, but it sounds like here that the flow is whenever it runs. So if one flow I create runs 5 times in a day that's FIVE LICENSES?! That's insane! Am I understanding this correctly, someone tell me I'm wrong and haven't lost my mind.
CSRPhoto you misunderstood it. Each flow needs a license: either the flow owner has to be licensed (per user license), or the flow itself (per flow license). Then your flow can run many times within the limits detailed at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/limits-and-config.
The 5 licenses mentioned in this discussion is about the minimum quantity of "Power Automate per flow" license that you can order at a time. You can order just one license but 5 as a minimum. So even if you have only one flow to license, you still need to buy 5 licenses. 1 license you will use on your flow and the 4 left will be unused until you need them
- Great, that makes much more sense. TY
