By default, the XProtect BYOL CloudFormation deploys all server components on a single EC2 instance. With the AWS cloud infrastructure, you can scale individual components across multiple instances and storages to meet the expanding performance and capacity needs of your VMS installation.

The XProtect CloudFormation script deploys Microsoft SQL Server Express, which is a free edition of SQL Server.

Depending on your hardware and configuration, systems with up to 18 cameras can run on a c5.large instance type, while larger instances such as g4dn.4xlarge can support up to 480 cameras. For systems with more than 500 cameras, Milestone recommends that you use second-level scaling of dedicated EC2 instances and storage for all or some of the components.