Power Platform Environments

• Environments are containers for Power Apps and Power Automate code and data.
• Organizations can control access to apps and flows by setting environment boundaries.
• Environments are needed to control data security, code access, and unchecked resource growth within Power Platform.

Power Platform services organize apps and projects within containers called environments, which control which users can access apps, flows, and chatbots. Environments are the main way for organizations to control data security, unauthorized access, and resource growth within Power Platform, a marketing umbrella used for Microsoft’s low-code development services including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI. Access to an environment and its resources is controlled by both licensing and administrative settings; properly designing, monitoring, and controlling this access can keep Power Platform usage from outpacing an organization’s IT budget.

Environment Contents and Types

Environments contain resources such as applications, and user accounts and security roles for controlling access to those resources. Several predefined environment types serve testing or other specific tasks.