# October 2021

> October 2021 release notes for Robot in Automation Cloud.

## October 14, 2021

### Elastic Robot Orchestration

#### Support for GCP

For those of you using Google Cloud Platform (GCP), we have added support for using this provider for [elastic robot orchestration](https://docs.uipath.com/robot/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/elastic-robot-orchestration).

**GCP** is now available as an option in the **Settings > Cloud Connections** page.

#### New name for the machine template

The machine template used for elastic robot orchestration has been renamed from **Cloud Machine Pool** to **Elastic Robot Pool**.

#### More control over auto-scaling

We have added a few extra knobs to the Elastic Robot Pool machine template so that, when using auto-scaling (**Automatically Create Machines** is enabled), you can add specific rules for how and when new machines should be created. Here are the new controls:

* Selecting the new **Advanced** option for **Scheduling** lets you set the allocation speed, as well as the number of machines you want to keep in standby and the idle time allowed for machines:

  ![Screenshot of the Advanced setting](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/orchestrator/orchestrator-screenshot-of-the-advanced-setting-217383-81c2deda-4fb74998.webp)
* **Profile scheduling** is a new setting for the machine template which lets you specify exceptions - with a start and end time - during which you want a different scheduling profile to apply for the template:

  ![Screenshot of the Profile scheduling page](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/orchestrator/orchestrator-screenshot-of-the-profile-scheduling-page-217046-8be9bb65-830b81ca.webp)

For example, if your machine template uses the **Balanced** profile, but you know the end of the month is busier than usual, you can add an interval to use the **Fast** profile during the last 5 days of the month. This way, elastic robot orchestration is faster during this period, then reverts to the original profile set for the machine template - **Balanced**.

[Configuring Profile Scheduling](https://docs.uipath.com/robot/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/elastic-robot-orchestration)