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Data Security/server location in Power Automate Cloud and Desktop

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Hello Community,

 

I would like to raise a question/doubt to you. In terms of data policies/restrictions I understand that when a flow is based on Power Automate Cloud, it should generate an action, record or something with the data involved in Microsoft servers right? As it is a cloud solution. (As per my understanding). 

However, how is the situation with Power Automate Desktop? Let’s imagine that I have a flow which takes an excel file from my desktop (or my own virtual machine), open a specific url in chrome for example and upload there the file. In this case, is the flow using Microsoft servers or my own environment or servers? Is there any kind of official documentation about this topic or difference? 

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

 

Have a great day!

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