Do I need Power Automate or Azure Logic Apps?
By Emil Björk · Microsoft business apps consultant, Gothenburg
Power Automate for citizen-developer flows that live inside a Dynamics 365 or Microsoft 365 experience; Azure Logic Apps for integrations that are owned by IT, deployed as code, and monitored alongside other Azure workloads. They share a runtime and most connectors — the difference is governance, deployment, and who runs it.
The two products come from the same engine — the connectors, expressions, and control flow are largely identical. What differs is packaging. Power Automate flows live in a Dataverse environment, are edited in the browser, and are governed through the Power Platform admin centre. Logic Apps live in an Azure subscription, are defined in ARM/Bicep, versioned in Git, monitored in Application Insights, and priced under Azure consumption.
For a workflow triggered by a Case being created and ending in a Teams message, Power Automate is the right home. For an integration that lands orders from a partner EDI portal into Business Central with retry, dead-letter queues, and OpsGenie alerting, Logic Apps is the right home. Mixed estates are normal — pick per workload, not per site.
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