Cross-deployment model feature comparison

Compare features across Automation Suite deployment models on Linux, EKS/AKS, and OpenShift.

Automation Suite supports multiple deployment models. Use the following tables to understand product-level configuration support and platform-level differences across deployment models.

If you need to deploy Automation Suite in different supported environments, refer to the following guides:

• Automation Suite on OpenShift installation guide
• Automation Suite on Linux installation guide

Automation Suite components configuration support

The following table shows the configuration support available for each Automation Suite product across authentication, security, deployment, networking, and disaster recovery configurations.

Product/Component	Deployment Flavors				Authentication (SQL, PostgreSQL, object store, or any resources like queues)				Security	Networking		Disaster Recovery
	Linux	AKS	EKS	OpenShift	Basic Auth	Kerberos	Workload Identity	IAM Roles	FIPS	IPv4	IPv6	Active-Active/Linux	Active-Passive/Linux	Active-Passive/EKS/AKS	Active-Passive/OpenShift
Autopilot for Developers (A4D)1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
Action Center	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Agent Builder / Agents1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌3	❌4	❌4	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	❌	❌
Agent Hub1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
AI Center	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅5	✅ Training job only deployed in primary site	✅6	✅6	✅
API Workflow1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
Apps	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Automation Hub	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌7	❌7	✅	❌
Automation Ops	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Automation Suite Robots	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Autopilot for Everyone	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
Coded Agent1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
Data Service	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Document Understanding	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅5	✅	✅	✅	✅
ECS (Context Grounding)	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅5	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
GenAI Activities	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
Healing Agent1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
Insights	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌7	❌7	✅	❌
Integration Service	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅1	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
LLM Gateway	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
LLM Observability	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌2	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
Maestro (Agentic Orchestration)1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌3	❌4	❌4	❌ Depends on Insights	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	❌	❌
Orchestrator	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Process Mining	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌7	❌7	✅	❌
Screenplay1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
Semantic Proxy1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
Solutions	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Studio Web	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	✅	❌
TaaS (Temporal as a Service)1	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅	N/A	N/A	❌	❌
Test Manager	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅

¹ Available starting with Automation Suite 2.2510.2.
² Depends on Integration Service.
³ Depends on Integration Service and TaaS.
⁴ Depends on TaaS.
⁵ Available starting with Automation Suite 2.2510.1.
⁶ Manual skill migration is required.
⁷ Only on Primary site.

Deployment model comparison

The following table describes the platform-level differences across Automation Suite deployment models.

User scenario/Feature	Automation Suite on Linux	Automation Suite on AKS	Automation Suite on EKS	Automation Suite on OpenShift
Architecture
Kubernetes	Rancher RKE2	AKS	EKS	OpenShift
Databases	MS SQL Additional Microsoft SQL platforms, such as Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance, as well as Amazon Relational Database Service are also supported as long as the Microsoft SQL Server database engine meets the requirements. PostgreSQL for Process Mining Airflow database
Storage	Option 1: Object Storage (Ceph) Option 2: Object storage external to the cluster UiPath® provides Ceph.	Object Storage: Azure Blob Filesystem: Azure Filesystem Block Storage: Azure Disks	Object Storage: AWS S3 Filesystem: AWS EFS Block Storage: AWS EBS	Objectstore - Azure Blob, AWS S3, S3-compatible objectstore File System - StorageClass for workloads that do not require replication Block storage - StorageClass with replication for the persistent volume
Service Mesh and Routing	OSS Istio Service Mesh Routing via envoy ingress gateway	OSS Istio Service Mesh Routing via WASM plugin	OSS Istio Service Mesh Routing via WASM plugin	OpenShift Service Mesh Routing via WASM plugin
OPA	OSS Gatekeeper	OSS Gatekeeper	OSS Gatekeeper	❌
Monitoring	OSS Prometheus and Grafana	OSS Prometheus and Grafana	OSS Prometheus and Grafana	❌
Caching	Embedded Redis within the cluster and provided by UiPath®	Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer	Cloud Redis outside the cluster and managed by customer	External Redis Enterprise OpenShift Redis Enterprise Operator managed by customer
Logging Aggregation	OSS Fluentd/Fluent-bit	OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit	OSS Fluend/Fluent-bit	❌
Cert Manager	OSS Cert Manager	OSS Cert Manager	OSS Cert Manager	OpenShift Cert Manager Operator
Deployment tool	OSS ArgoCD	OSS ArgoCD	OSS ArgoCD	OpenShift GitOps Operator
Deployment scenario
Single Node	✅	❌	❌	❌
Multi Node (HA)	✅ (requires additional HAA license)	✅	✅	✅
Online	✅	✅	✅	✅
Offline	✅	✅	✅	✅
Deployment method
Advanced CLI	uipathctl	uipathctl	uipathctl	uipathctl
GUI-based wizard	✅ GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, refer to Generating the configuration file using a wizard.	✅ GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, refer to Generating the configuration file using a wizard.	✅ GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, refer to Generating the configuration file using a wizard.	✅ GUI-based wizard for generating the cluster configuration file. For details, refer to Generating the configuration file using a wizard.
Installation
A la carte product selection	✅	✅	✅	✅
Custom domain	✅	✅	✅	✅
Custom certificates	✅	✅	✅	✅
Hardware requirements validation	✅	✅	✅	✅
Proxy configuration	✅	✅	✅	✅
Optional OSS/fabric component	❌	✅	✅	❌
Enterprise grade features
Disaster Recovery	✅ (Active/Passive and Active/Active deployments)	❌ (Multi-zone architecture for UiPath® services without zone affinity. Insights not supported.)	✅(Active/Passive deployments)	✅(Active/Passive deployments)
Backup/restore	✅	✅ Recommend using cloud managed backup or your own backup and restore solution. For details, refer to Backing up and restoring the cluster.	✅ Recommend using cloud managed backup or your own backup and restore solution. For details, refer to Backing up and restoring the cluster.	You must use your own backup and restore solution.
Upgrade	✅	✅	✅	✅
Troubleshooting
Support bundle	✅( uipathctl )	✅ ( uipathctl )	✅ ( uipathctl )	✅ ( uipathctl )
Diagnostic tool	✅( uipathctl )	✅( uipathctl )	✅ ( uipathctl )	✅ ( uipathctl )
Health Checks	✅ ( uipathctl )	✅ ( uipathctl )	✅ ( uipathctl )	✅ ( uipathctl )
Security
FIPS enabled host	✅	✅	✅	✅
Gatekeeper/OPA policy	✅	✅	✅	❌
Network policy	✅	✅	✅	❌
Hardened UiPath® service container images	✅	✅	✅	✅
ArgoCD SSO	✅ (LDAP only)	✅	✅	❌
mTLS for service communication	✅	✅	✅	✅
Migration options
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation Suite full migration	✅	✅	✅	✅
Standalone Orchestrator to Automation single tenant migration options	✅	✅	✅	✅
Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on AKS/EKS	✅	✅	✅	N/A
Automation Suite on Linux to Automation Suite on OpenShift	✅	N/A	N/A	✅