Looking for arguments for and against both solutions:
1. Running an unattended flow ($50+$150/month) on a decent Azure VM that is switched on and off automatically (a few dollars)
2. Running an attended flow ($50/month) on a decent always-on Azure VM ($100/month)
Disclosure: I am not an Azure VM expert and I may be misunderstanding something here. Same goes for the pricing model... maybe I'm missing something.
Nevertheless, at first glance, seems like option 2 would be best: I can have several attended UI flows running in sequence on the always-on VM without incurring any additional costs, whereas I would have to pay an extra $150 for each additional unattended flow.
The reason I would leave the VM on and signed in all the time for the attended flow is to avoid manually singing in every time I need a flow to be run.
Please do not hesitate to correct any of my possibly incorrect assumptions. Looking forward to different viewpoints!

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