Standard v4 Plan Specifications

A reference for Standard v4 plan specifications

Purpose: This page lists resource and feature specifications for Webscale Standard v4 plans (Small, Medium, Large, X-Large).

Architecture overview

  • Standard v4 is built on a Decoupled Plane Architecture — a three-plane model that separates administrative overhead and security processing from the core storefront.
  • The Control Plane handles management tasks (backups, logging, analytics), freeing the Data Plane to dedicate 100% of its resources to serving customers.
  • Container orchestration uses Podman, so every service runs as an isolated, rootless process — providing self-healing stability without cross-service impact.
  • Unlike Essentials, Standard v4 uses a split Data Server / App Cluster model — the data server and application cluster are separate, dedicated instances that scale independently.

Plan comparison

The table below summarizes resource and major feature allocations across Standard v4 tiers.

Data Server

Feature Specification Small Medium Large X-Large
Proxy Service Webscale Dataplane Shared Shared Shared Shared
Cloud Hosting Managed AWS EC2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Compute vCPU 8 16 16 32
Memory RAM (GB) 32 32 64 64
Storage EBS (GB) 40 / 100 40 / 100 40 / 100 40 / 100
Backups Daily Backup Retention (days) 7 15 15 15

App Cluster

Feature Specification Small Medium Large
Compute vCPU 2 4 8
Memory RAM (GB) 4 8 16
App Cluster Min Instances 1 1 1
App Cluster Max Instances 4 4 4

Notes:

  • App Cluster and Data Server resource allocations can be purchased as listed in the sizing table or modified as needed to meet requirements.
  • “Shared” in Proxy Service indicates all Standard v4 tiers operate on a shared Webscale dataplane.
  • EBS storage is listed as 40 Gb boot / 100 Gb data volumes.
  • Check your commercial terms for any overage, regional, or billing specifics not captured here.

Features included in all Standard v4 plans

The following capabilities are available across all Standard v4 tiers (Small, Medium, Large, X-Large).

Application delivery

Webscale operates directly in the traffic path for all Standard v4 plans.

Includes:

  • Global CDN (AWS CloudFront)
  • Web Application Firewall configurable via Web Controls
  • Traffic Viewer
  • Image optimization
  • DDoS protection

Cloud hosting & operations

All Standard v4 plans include:

  • AWS-based architecture (EC2, EBS, VPC, Route 53)
  • Dedicated data server separate from the application cluster
  • Autoscaling application cluster (production tiers)
  • Podman-based daemonless container orchestration
  • Commerce-tuned configurations (PHP-FPM, Varnish, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL/MariaDB)
  • Infrastructure patching and updates
  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Incident response
  • SSH Connect / SSH Gateway access
  • Operational ownership by Webscale

Platform compatibility

Standard v4 supports the following commerce platforms:

  • Magento
  • Adobe Commerce
  • Shopware
  • WooCommerce

Last modified May 8, 2025