Power Platform licenses demystified - Basic concepts

Power Platform licenses demystified - Basic concepts
What's an App?
- Model-Driven
- Canvas
- Portal (Power Pages are in preview)
Connector types
- Standard: mostly the Microsoft 365 ecosystem - Think of SharePoint and Outlook for example
- Premium: beyond the Microsoft 365 ecosystem - Think of Dataverse for example
- Custom: tailored scenarios - When you create your own connector
- On-Premise: using a data gateway - such as when you want to access that good ol’ back office ERP
Multiplexing
- Use of hardware or software to pool connections, reroute information, or reduce the number of users that directly access or use one of the Power Platform services
- Import / Export to other systems: if a manual step is involved to process, then multiplexing shouldn’t apply
- The number of tiers doesn’t matter
- All users require adequate licenses
Request limits
- A Power Platform Request: various actions translated as API requests
- Power Apps: all requests to connectors and Dataverse
- Power Automate: all requests to connectors, actions (including built-in actions), retries, pagination
- Power Virtual Agents: all calls to Power Automate
- Dataverse: CRUD, assign, and share – for both user-driven and internal system requests
- Exceed: get ready to be throttled down!
Basic concepts Video
Power Platform licenses demystified - What's next?
- Introduction
- Basic concepts
- Power Apps (Seeded, Per app, Pay as you go, Per user)
- Power Automate (Per user, with attended RPA, per flow, unattended add-on)
- Power Virtual Agents
- Power BI
- Portals (Pages) and more add-ons
About me
You can reach me on:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZePowerDiver
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZePowerDiver/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ZePowerDiver/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZePowerDiver
Blogger: https://www.zepowerdiver.com/
Github: https://github.com/ZePowerdiver/
Keep on Diving!
Published on:
Learn moreRelated posts
Save $100 With Power Platform Conference 2025 Discount Code
Use my Power Platform Conference 2025 Discount Code: MVPDEVANEY for $100 off registration. Follow this ... The post Save $100 With Power Platf...
Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Call (Microsoft Speakers) – Community Takeover – July 8th, 2025 – Screenshot Summary
Call Highlights SharePoint Quicklinks: Primary PnP Website: https://aka.ms/m365pnp Documentation & Guidance SharePoint Dev Videos Issues...
Power Platform Blue Print Review – Quick Recap
The Solution blueprint review is covers all required topics. The workshop can also be conducted remotely. When the workshop is done remotely, ...
Power Platform & M365 Dev Community Call – July 3rd, 2025 – Screenshot Summary
Call Highlights SharePoint Quicklinks: Primary PnP Website: https://aka.ms/m365pnp Documentation & Guidance SharePoint Dev Videos Issues...
Power Platform admin center – The agent inventory page is now available for Public Preview
We are announcing that the agent inventory page for the Power Platform admin center is now available for Public Preview. This page allows admi...
Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Call (Microsoft Speakers) – Community Takeover – July 1st, 2025 – Screenshot Summary
Call Highlights SharePoint Quicklinks: Primary PnP Website: https://aka.ms/m365pnp Documentation & Guidance SharePoint Dev Videos Issues...
Power Platform admin center – Manage agent security with enhanced admin controls
We are announcing the ability to govern Copilot agent development in your environments and enforce governance policies for Copilot agents. Thi...
Add other agents | Power Platform Shorts
Power Platform – Information regarding the ability to re-enable customer-managed key locked environments
We are announcing the ability to manually re-enable customer-managed keys locked environments will reach public preview starting on June 30, 2...