January 2023

January 2023 release notes for Robot in Automation Cloud.

January 19, 2023

Robot Unit Consumption for Testing Automation Cloud Robots - Serverless

Testing Automation Cloud robots - serverless has never been easier. If you were previously worried about the cost implications of such a decision, fret no more as we have now introduced a more affordable option for testing or non-production environments. To put it briefly, we now charge fewer robot units (RUs)/minute for testing serverless jobs.

Note that you must be on the Enterprise, Pro, or Pro Trial licensing plan to benefit from the new testing RU consumption paradigm. If you are a Community user, you cannot use testing runtimes.

While the numbers you were used to continue to be applicable to production environments, test RU consumption has been reduced to half. For more details, see Machine sizes and costs.

Wondering how this is reflected in the Orchestrator UI? First of all, you will see that the runtime details are displayed for both production and testing when configuring the serverless robot machine. Aside from that, when executing the unattended automations, you now need to specify whether you want to use Cloud - Serverless or Cloud - Serverless Testing as a runtime license.

You may also want to know that if you run a test case or test set from the Testing panel in Orchestrator, these job types now consume the testing RU amount by default.

Testing Runtimes for Automation Cloud Robots - VM

Similarly to Serverless testing runtimes, now you can execute test cases on your Automation Cloud robots VMs at a lower cost, as we adjusted the robot unit (RU) consumption rate for testing environments. The cost of Automation Cloud test robots starts at 2,000 RUs per month, and increases with your VM size.

Just make sure to select the Testing/NonProduction environment while configuring your Cloud robots - VM pool, and then, when you run a job, select the Cloud - VM Testing runtime.

January 12, 2023

Multiple Automation Cloud Robot VMs

You now have the option to add multiple VMs to your manually managed Automation Cloud robots - VM pools.

Learn how to add multiple machines after you create the manually managed VM pool.