Power Automate flows gain self-service disaster recovery
Microsoft updated its Power Platform disaster recovery guidance to cover self-service disaster recovery for Power Automate cloud flows and desktop flows. The capability supports failover and failback for production environments when an outage affects a primary region. Self-service disaster recovery must be enabled before it is needed. Microsoft says the environment must be a Managed Environment and linked to pay-as-you-go billing, with extra storage capacity consumed in the paired secondary region. Power Automate workloads can run after failover, but Microsoft warns that high-volume, highly parallel, or latency-sensitive flows may start more slowly or have lower throughput.
Before this capability, a regional outage left most Power Automate makers with little more than failed runs, delayed approvals, and manual workarounds. The new option gives admins a supported recovery path for production environments instead of waiting for the primary region to recover. The catch is that it is not automatic business continuity for every flow. Makers still need an owner, a documented failover decision, realistic testing, and checks for external dependencies such as SharePoint, SQL Server, or third-party systems that may not recover with the Power Platform environment.
Analysis
Check whether your production environment is eligible and opted in before you need it. If you run business-critical flows, document who can start failover, how you will check replication lag, and which external connectors may still break.
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