Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard - PaaS 2.0. Topologies and tiers for Sitecore XP 10.3.1 and higher


Description

The following tables describe the differences between various Sitecore XM/XP environments for the Sitecore Managed Cloud PaaS 2.0 services, as well as related Azure components.

Customers can purchase these configurations under both Production and Non-Production service level agreements (SLAs).

Note: Tiers and topologies are subject to availability. Check the Sitecore Managed Cloud – compatibility tables for the currently supported tiers for provisioning new Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard sets, as well as for the Microsoft Azure data center compatibility information. The environment tiers are designed in accordance with Sitecore XP ARM templates with additional changes and clarifications required to deliver Managed Cloud-specific SLAs.

The following tables are provided within this Knowledge Base Article:

Sitecore Managed Cloud PaaS 2.0 includes the provision of additional Hub Networks. Customers will be provided with a dedicated Production-Hub and an additional dedicated DR-Hub (Subject to add-on purchase). Hub Networks are available in two options:

Experience Platform (XP) – Production

Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard supports Small to 3x Large XP Tiers for Production Environments only.

Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard does not support the use of Single or x-Small tiers for Production Environments.

Component Single x-Small Small Medium Large x-Large 2x-Large 3-xLarge
Approximate visits per month range [3] N/A N/A Up to 500,000 500,000 - 1,000,000 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 2,000,000 - 5,000,000 5,000,000 - 10,000,000 10,000,000 - 20,000,000
Identity Server
[Azure App Service]
- - 1x S1 1x S1 1x S1 1x S2 1x S2 1x S2

Content Management Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- - 1x P2 v3  1x P2 v3  1x P2 v3  1x P2 v3  1x P2 v3  1x P3 v3 

Content Delivery Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- - 3x P1 v3  3x P1 v3  3x P2 v3  5x P2 v3  5x P3 v3  10x P3 v3 

xDB Processing service 
[Azure App Service] 

- - 1x S1  1x S1  1x S1  2x P1 v3  2x P1 v3  2x P1 v3 

 XC-Basic:

  • Cortex Reporting Service  
  • Marketing Operations 
  • Marketing Automation reporting 
  • xConnect Collection search 
  • [Azure App Service] 
- - 1x S1  1x S2  1x S2  2x P1 v3  2x P2 v3  2x P2 v3 

 XC-Resource Intensive 

  • Cortex Processing service 
  • xConnect Collection 
  • xConnect Reference data 
  • [Azure App Service] 
- - 1x S1  1x P1 v3  1x P1 v3  2x P1 v3  2x P2 v3  2x P2 v3 

  XM-Pool Databases 

  • Core DB 
  • Web DB 
  • Master DB 

    [Azure SQL Database] 
- -

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

4 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

4 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

4 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

  XP-Pool Databases 

  • Reporting database 
  • Pools 
  • Tasks 
  • Cortex processing engine 
  • Cortex processing engine Storage 
  • Forms 
  • EXM 
  • Marketing Automation 
  • Reference data 
  • Shard map management 

  [Azure SQL Database] 

- -

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

4 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

6 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

6 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

  Shard Databases 

  • Shard 0 
  • Shard 1 
  [Azure SQL Database] 
- -

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

4 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

6 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

6 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

Search [1] 

[SolrSearchStax] 

- - Prod-Cluster 
Tier: Small 
Prod-Cluster 
Tier: Small 
Prod-Cluster 
Tier: Small 
Prod-Cluster 
Tier: Medium 
Prod-Cluster 
Tier: Medium 
Prod-Cluster 
Tier: Medium 

Monitoring [4] 

[Azure App Insights] 

- - Basic  Basic  Basic  Enterprise  Enterprise  Enterprise 

Session State 

[Azure Cache for Redis] 

- - Standard 
C2 
Premium 
P1 
Premium 
P1 
Premium 
P1 
Premium 
P1 
Premium 
P1 

Service Bus 

[Azure Service Bus] 

- - Standard  Standard  Standard  Standard  Standard  Standard 

Application Gateway 

[Azure Application Gateway v2] 

- - AppGW v2 
Compute Unit: 2 
AppGW v2 
Compute Unit: 2 
AppGW v2 
Compute Unit: 4 
AppGW v2 
Comp Unit: 8 
AppGW v2 
Compute Unit: 16 
AppGW v2 
Compute Unit: 32 

Private Link [2] 

[Azure Private Link / Private Endpoint] 

- - 8 Endpoints  8 Endpoints  8 Endpoints  8 Endpoints  8 Endpoints  8 Endpoints 

Process Automation  

[Azure Automation] 

- - 1,000 minutes  1,000 minutes  1,000 minutes  1,000 minutes  1,000 minutes  1,000 minutes 

Experience Platform (XP) – non-Production

The tiers noted below are recommended for non-production environments only. These environments are not scaled to support the same performance categorization of the Production tiers noted above. The intent is to provide an environment with similar architectural design considerations with a lower performance profile.

Component 
Single 
x-Small 
Small 
Medium 
Large 
x-Large 
2x-Large 
3-xLarge 
Approximate visits per month range [3] 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
Identity Server 

[Azure App Service] 

1x P2 v3 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S2 
1x S2 
1x S2 
Content Management Server 

[Azure App Service] 

1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P3 v3 
Content Delivery Server 

[Azure App Service] 

1x P1 V3 
 
 
 
 

1x P0 v3 

 
 
 
 

3x P0 v3 

 
 
 
 

3x P1 v3 

 
 
 
 

3x P2 v3 

 
 
 
 

3x P2 v3 

 
 
 
 

3x P3 v3 

 
 
 
 

3x P3 v3 

 
xDB Processing service 

[Azure App Service] 

 
 
 
 

1x S1 

 
 
 
 

1x S1 

 
 
 
 

1x S1 

 
 
 
 

1x S1 

 
 
 
 

1x P1 v3 

 
 
 
 

1x P1 v3 

 
 
 
 

1x P1 v3 

 XC-Basic 
  • Cortex Reporting Service
  • Marketing Operations
  • Marketing Automation reporting
  • xConnect Collection search

 [Azure App Service] 

1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S2 
1x S2 
1x P1 v3 
1x P1 v3 
1x P2 v3 
 
  XC-Resource Intensive
  • Cortex Processing service 
  • xConnect Collection 
  • xConnect Reference data 
 

  [Azure App Service] 

1x S1 
1x S1 
1x P1 v3 
1x P1 v3 
1x P1 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
 
  XM-Pool Databases 
  • Core DB 
  • Web DB 
  • Master DB 
 

  [Azure SQL Database] 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

 
 
 
 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

 
 
 
 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

 
 
 
 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

 
 
 
 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

 
 
 
 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

 
 
 
 
 

  XP-Pool Databases

  • Reporting database
  • Pools 
  • Tasks 
  • Cortex processing engine 
  • Cortex processing engine Storage 
  • Forms 
  • EXM 
  • Marketing Automation Reference data
  • Shard map management 

  [Azure SQL Database] 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

  Shard Databases 
  • Shard 0 
  • Shard 1 
 

  [Azure SQL Database] 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

Search [1] 

[SolrSearchStax] 

Non-Prod Single 

Tier: Single 

Non-Prod Single 

Tier: Single 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Small 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Small 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Small 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Medium 

 
Monitoring [4] 

[Azure App Insights] 

Basic 
Basic 
Basic 
Basic 
Basic 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
Session State 

[Azure Cache for Redis] 

- 
Standard 

C1 

Standard 

C2 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

 
Service Bus 

[Azure Service Bus] 

Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Application Gateway 

[Azure Application Gateway v2] 

AppGW v2 

Compute Unit: 1 

AppGW v2 

Compute Unit: 1 

AppGW v2 

Compute Unit: 2 

AppGW v2 

Compute Unit: 2 

AppGW v2 

Compute Unit: 4 

AppGW v2 

Compute Unit: 4 

AppGW v2 

Compute Unit: 4 

AppGW v2 

Compute Unit: 4 

Private Link [*2] 

[Azure Private Link / Private Endpoint] 

3 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
Process Automation  

[Azure Automation] 

1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 

Experience Platform (XP) – Disaster Recovery 2.0 Environments

Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard supports Small to 3x Large XP Tiers for Disaster Recover Environments Only.

For further details relating to Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard DR 2.0 Service contact your aligned Sitecore Account Executive.

Component 
Single 
x-Small 
Small 
Medium 
Large 
x-Large 
2x-Large 
3-xLarge 
Approximate visits per month range [3] 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
Identity Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
 
Content Management Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
Content Delivery Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
xDB Processing service 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
-
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
 
 
 
 
 

  XC-Basic 

  • Cortex Reporting Service  
  • Marketing Operations 
  • Marketing Automation reporting 
  • xConnect Collection search 
 

  [Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
XC-Resource Intensive 
  • Cortex Processing service 
  • xConnect Collection 
  • xConnect Reference data 
 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
 
XM-Pool Databases 
 
  • Core DB 
  • Web DB 
  • Master DB 
 

[Azure SQL Database] 

- 
- 
 
 
2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
125GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
125GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

XP-Pool Databases 
  • Reporting database 
  • Pools 
  • Tasks 
  • Cortex processing engine 
  • Cortex processing engine Storage 
  • Forms 
  • EXM 
  • Marketing Automation
  • Reference data 
  • Shard map management 
 

  [Azure SQL Database] 

- 
- 
2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
125GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

 Shard Databases
  • Shard 0 
  • Shard 1 
 

  [Azure SQL Database] 

- 
- 
2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

Search [1] 

[SolrSearchStax] 

- 
- 
Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Small 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Small 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Small 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Monitoring [4] 

[Azure App Insights] 

-
-
Basic 
Basic 
Basic 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
Session State 

[Azure Cache for Redis] 

- 
- 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Service Bus 

[Azure Service Bus] 

- 
- 
Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Standard 
Application Gateway 

[Azure Application Gateway v2] 

- 
- 
AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

Private Link [2] 

[Azure Private Link / Private Endpoint] 

- 
- 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
8 Endpoints 
Process Automation  [Azure Automation] 
- 
- 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 
1,000 minutes 

Note: Disaster Recovery environments are tuned down for cost optimisation purposes. In the event of a DR failover, the DR environment will be automatically scaled to meet the performance tier as defined by the associated Production Environment.

Experience Management (XM) – Production

Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard supports Small to 3x Large XP Tiers for Production Environments Only.

Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard does not support the use of Single or x-Small tiers for Production Environments.

Component 
Single 
x-Small 
Small 
Medium 
Large 
x-Large 
2x-Large 
3-xLarge 
Approximate visits per month range [3] 
N/A 
N/A 
Up to 500,000 
500,000 - 

1,000,000 

1,000,000 -  

2,000,000 

2,000,000 -  

5,000,000 

5,000,000 -  

10,000,000 

10,000,000 -  

20,000,000 

 
Identity Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S2 
1x S2 
 
1x S2 
Content Management Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P3 v3 
Content Delivery Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
3x P1 v3 
3x P1 v3 
3x P2 v3 
4 x P2 v3 
4x P3 v3 
7x P3 v3 
XM-Pool Databases 
  • Core DB 
  • Web DB 
  • Master DB 
 

[Azure SQL Database] 

- 
- 
2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

4 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

4 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

4 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

Search 

[SolrSearchStax [1]

- 
- 
Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Small 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Small 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Small 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Medium 

 
Monitoring [4] 

[Azure App Insights] 

-
-
Basic 
Basic 
Basic 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
 
 
 
Session State 

[Azure Cache for Redis] 

 
- 
 
- 
Standard 

C2 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Application Gateway 

[Azure Application Gateway v2] 

- 
- 
AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:4 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:8 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:16 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:32 

Private Link [2] 

[Azure Private Link / Private Endpoint] 

- 
- 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
 
Process Automation  

[Azure Automation] 

- 
- 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 

Experience Management (XM) – non-Production

The tiers noted below are recommended for non-production environments only. These environments are not scaled to support the same performance categorisation of the Production tiers noted above. The intent is to provide an environment with similar architectural design considerations with a lower performance profile.

Component 
Single 
x-Small 
Small 
Medium 
Large 
x-Large 
2x-Large 
3-xLarge 
Approximate visits per month range [3] 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
Identity Server 

[Azure App Service] 

1x P2 V3 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S2 
1x S2 
1x S2 
Content Management Server 

[Azure App Service] 

1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P2 v3 
1x P3 v3 
Content Delivery Server 

[Azure App Service] 

1x P0 v3 
3x P0 v3 
3x P1 v3 
3x P2 v3 
3 x P2 v3 
3x P3 v3 
3x P3 v3 
XM-Pool Databases 
  • Core DB
  • Web DB
  • Master DB 

[Azure SQL Database] 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
250GB Storage 

Search [1] 

[SolrSearchStax] 

Non-Prod Single 

Tier: Single 

Non-Prod Single 

Tier: Single 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Small 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Small 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Small 

 
Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Medium 

 
Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Non-Prod cluster 

Tier: Medium 

 
Monitoring [4] 

[Azure App Insights] 

Basic 
Basic 
Basic 
Basic 
Basic 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
Session State 

[Azure Cache for Redis] 

- 
Standard 

C1 

Standard 

C2 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Premium 

P1 

Application Gateway 

[Azure Application Gateway v2] 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:1 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:1 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

Private Link [2] 

[Azure Private Link / Private Endpoint] 

3 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
Process Automation  

[Azure Automation] 

1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 

Experience Management (XM) – Disaster Recovery (DR) Environment

Sitecore Managed Cloud Standard supports Small to 3x Large XP Tiers for Disaster Recover Environments Only.

Component 
Single 
x-Small 
Small 
Medium 
 
Large 
 
x-Large 
 
2x-Large 
 
3-xLarge 
Approximate visits per month range [3] 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
N/A 
Identity Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
1x B1 
 
Content Management Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
Content Delivery Server 

[Azure App Service] 

- 
- 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
1x S1 
XM-Pool Databases 
  • Core DB 

  • Web DB 

  • Master DB 

[Azure SQL Database] 

- 
- 
2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
125GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
125GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
125GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
125GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
125GB Storage 

2 vCore  

Gen 5 
Elastic Pool  
125GB Storage 

Search [1] 

[SolrSearchStax] 

- 
- 
Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Small 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Small 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Small 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Prod-Cluster 

Tier: Medium 

Monitoring [4] 

[Azure App Insights] 

- -
Basic 
Basic 
Basic 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
Enterprise 
Session State 

[Azure Cache for Redis] 

- 
- 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Basic C0 
Application Gateway 

[Azure Application Gateway v2] 

- 
- 
AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

AppGW v2 

Comp Unit:2 

Private Link [2] 

[Azure Private Link / Private Endpoint] 

- 
- 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
5 Endpoints 
Process Automation  

[Azure Automation] 

- 
- 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 
1,000 Minutes 

Production Basic-Hub

MCS_Hub_PaaS_Basic 
Component 
Quantity 
Basic 
Production Traffic Management Instance 
1 
Front Door Standard 
Non-Production Traffic Management Instance 
1 
Front Door Standard 
Automation Agent – Compute Instance 
1 
Virtual Machine B2ms - Windows 
Virtual Machine Storage 
1 
P10 LRS 
Azure Backup 
10 
VM Backup Server 
Azure DNS Private - Zones 
1 
Azure DNS Private - Zones 
Azure DNS Private - Queries (M) 
1 
Azure DNS Private - Queries (M) 
Bandwidth Internet Egress MGB (GB) 
1000 
Bandwidth Internet Egress MGB (GB) 
VPN Gateway VPNGW1 
1 
VPN Gateway VPNGW1 
VPN Gateway Outbound Inter-VNET Data Transfer 
100 
VPN Gateway Outbound Inter-VNET Data Transfer (GB) 
Key Vault 
1 
 
Key Vault Standard 
Azure Bastion 
1 
 
Azure Bastion Standard 
Azure Storage Accounts 
2 
Storage V2 GRS 

Advanced-Hub

The Advanced Hub is available as an add-on service subject to a contractual agreement.

MCS_Hub_PaaS_Advanced 
Component 
Quantity 
Advanced 
Production Traffic Management Instance 
1 
Front Door Premium 
Front Door Outbound Transfer Edge to Client GB 
1000 
Edge Client GB 
Front Door Outbound Transfer Edge Origin GB 
10 
Edge Origin GB 
Non-Production Traffic Management Instance 
1 
Front Door Premium 
Front Door Outbound Transfer Edge to Client GB 
50 
Edge Client GB 
Front Door Outbound Transfer Edge Origin GB 
10 
 
Edge Origin GB 
Automation Agent Compute Instance 
1 
Virtual Machine B2ms - Windows 
Virtual_Machine_Storage 
1 
P10 LRS 
Azure Backup 
10 
 
VM Backup Server 
Azure DNS Private - Zones 
1 
 
 
Azure DNS Private - Zones 
Azure DNS Private - Queries (M) 
1 
 
Azure DNS Private - Queries (M) 
Bandwidth Internet Egress MGB (GB) 
2000 
 
Bandwidth Internet Egress MGB (GB) 
VPN Gateway VPNGW1 
1 
VPN Gateway VPNGW1 
VPN Gateway Outbound Inter-VNET Data Transfer 
100 
 
VPN Gateway Outbound Inter-VNET Data Transfer (GB) 
Azure Defender App Services [5] 
27 
Azure Defender App Services  
Azure Defender Storage Account [5] 
2 
Azure Defender Storage Account  
Azure Defender Key Vault [5] 
5 
Azure Defender Key Vault  
Azure Defender SQL Server [5] 
1 
Azure Defender SQL Server  
Aure Defender Server [5] 
1 
Azure Defender Server  
Azure Key Vault [5] 
1 
Key Vault Standard  
Azure Bastion 
1 
Azure Bastion Standard  
Azure Storage Accounts 
2 
Storage V2 GRS

DR Basic-Hub

The DR Hub is available as an add-on service subject to contractual agreement.

MCS_Hub_PaaS_DR 
Component 
Quantity 
Basic 
Automation Agent – Compute Instance 
1 
Virtual Machine B2ms - Windows 
Virtual Machine Storage 
1 
P10 LRS 
Azure Backup 
10 
VM Backup Server 
Azure DNS Private - Zones 
1 
Azure DNS Private - Zones 
Azure DNS Private - Queries (M) 
1 
Azure DNS Private - Queries (M) 
Bandwidth Internet Egress MGB (GB) 
1000 
Bandwidth Internet Egress MGB (GB) 
VPN Gateway VPNGW1 
1 
VPN Gateway VPNGW1 
VPN Gateway Outbound Inter-VNET Data Transfer 
100 
VPN Gateway Outbound Inter-VNET Data Transfer (GB) 
Key Vault 
1 
Key Vault Standard 
 
Azure Bastion 
1 
Azure Bastion Standard 
 
Azure Storage Accounts 
1  Storage V2 GRS 

DR Advanced-Hub

The Advanced Hub is available as an add-on service subject to a contractual agreement.

MCS_Hub_PaaS_Advanced 
Component 
Quantity 
Advanced 
Production Traffic Management Instance 
1 
Front Door Premium 
 
Front Door Outbound Transfer Edge to Client GB 
1000 
Edge Client GB 
Front Door Outbound Transfer Edge Origin GB 
10 
Edge Origin GB 
 
Non-Production Traffic Management Instance 
1 
Front Door Premium 
 
Front Door Outbound Transfer Edge to Client GB 
50 
Edge Client GB 
Front Door Outbound Transfer Edge Origin GB 
10 
Edge Origin GB 
Automation Agent Compute Instance 
1 
Virtual Machine B2ms - Windows 
Virtual_Machine_Storage 
1 
P10 LRS 
Azure Backup 
10 
 
VM Backup Server 
Azure DNS Private - Zones 
1 
Azure DNS Private - Zones 
Azure DNS Private - Queries (M) 
1 
 
Azure DNS Private - Queries (M) 
Bandwidth Internet Egress MGB (GB) 
2000 
 
Bandwidth Internet Egress MGB (GB) 
VPN Gateway VPNGW1 
1 
VPN Gateway VPNGW1 
VPN Gateway Outbound Inter-VNET Data Transfer 
100 
 
VPN Gateway Outbound Inter-VNET Data Transfer (GB) 
 
Azure Defender App Services [5] 
27 
 
Azure Defender App Services  
 
Azure Defender Storage Account [5] 
2 
Azure Defender Storage Account  
Azure Defender Key Vault [5] 
5 
 
Azure Defender Key Vault  
Azure Defender SQL Server [5] 
1 
Azure Defender SQL Server  
Aure Defender Server [5] 
1 
Azure Defender Server  
 
Azure Key Vault [5] 
1 
Key Vault Standard  
Azure Bastion 
1 
Azure Bastion Standard  
Azure Storage Accounts 
2 
Storage V2 GRS 

Notes

Note: xDB Reporting service is not deployed as part of Sitecore 10.1 and later versions as it has been combined with the Content Management role.