The following table describes the differences between various Sitecore XP and XM environments for the Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard Container Images service, as well as related Azure components.
This article provides topologies and tiers for Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) and Sitecore Experience Management (XM).
Customers can purchase these configurations under both Production and Non-Production SLAs.
Note: Tiers and topologies are subject to availability. Check Sitecore Managed Cloud – compatibility tables for the currently supported tiers for provisioning new Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard Container Images sets, as well as for the Microsoft Azure data center compatibility information.
Component |
Extra Small* |
Small |
Medium |
Large |
Extra Large |
2x Large |
3x Large |
Approximate visits per month range |
0-150K |
150K-500K |
500K-1M |
1M-2M |
2M-5M |
5M-10M |
10M-20M |
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)[1] |
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Linux nodes pool |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
Windows node pool 1 |
1 x DS4 v2 |
2 x DS3 v2 |
2 x DS3 v2 |
2 x DS3 v2 |
4 x DS4_v2 |
6 x DS4_v2 |
11 x DS4_v2 |
Windows node pool 2 |
- |
1 x DS2 v2 |
2 x DS2 v2 |
4 x DS2 v2 |
- |
- |
- |
Public IP address |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Azure SQL elastic pool |
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Tier |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
Data size |
250 Gb |
250 Gb |
500 Gb |
750 Gb |
750 Gb |
1000 Gb |
1250 Gb |
vCores |
2 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
6 |
8 |
10 |
Azure Container Registry |
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SKU |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Key Vault |
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Tier |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Azure Storage Account |
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Performance |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Access tier |
Hot |
Hot |
Hot |
Hot |
Hot |
Hot |
Hot |
Account kind |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
Azure automation |
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Job run time (min) |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
Watchers |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Azure Front Door |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
Azure DevOps |
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Basic users |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
Paid parallel jobs |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
SearchStax - Solr [2] |
XS |
S |
M |
L |
XL |
2XL |
4XL |
Elasticsearch [3] |
S |
S |
S |
S |
S |
S |
S |
Component |
Small |
Medium |
Large |
Extra Large |
2x Large |
3x Large |
Approximate visits per month range |
150K-500K |
500K-1M |
1M-2M |
2M-5M |
5M-10M |
10M-20M |
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)[1] |
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Linux nodes pool |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
1 x DS2 v2 |
Windows node pool |
1 x DS3 v2 |
2 x DS3 v2 |
3 x DS4 v2 |
4 x DS4_v2 |
6 x DS4_v2 |
8 x DS4_v2 |
Azure SQL elastic pool |
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Tier |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
GP_Gen5 |
Data size |
250 Gb |
500 Gb |
750 Gb |
750 Gb |
1000 Gb |
1000 Gb |
vCores |
2 |
4 |
6 |
6 |
8 |
8 |
Azure Container Registry |
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SKU |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Key Vault |
|
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Tier |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Azure Storage Account |
|
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Performance |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Standard |
Access tier |
Hot |
Hot |
Hot |
Hot |
Hot |
Hot |
Account kind |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
StorageV2 |
Azure automation |
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Job run time (min) |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
1000 |
Watchers |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Azure Front Door |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
no SKU/tier |
Azure DevOps |
|
|||||
Basic users |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
Paid parallel jobs |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
SearchStax - Solr [2] |
S |
M |
L |
XL |
2XL |
4XL |
Elasticsearch [3] |
S |
S |
S |
S |
S |
S |
Tier | Specification | Production and Non-Production – Max Requests / Month* |
XS | 32 GB storage | 1 Million |
S | 32 GB storage | 2 Million |
M | 50 GB storage | 10 Million |
L | 75 GB storage | 20 Million |
XL | 75 GB storage | 100 Million |
2XL | 128 GB storage | 100 Million |
3XL | 256 GB storage | 100 Million |