Limits

Last published : Oct 12, 2026
The values in this article indicate the limits of a single Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops™ service) instance. Citrix has extensively tested these limits and recommends for the best end user and admin experience. These limits are soft limits and not technically enforced (except for the number of Active Directory domains and the total number of VDAs per resource location). When the number of concurrent users exceeds 125,000, Citrix can scale and combine multiple Citrix DaaS instances, to deliver a unified experience at any scale.
The information in this article is dynamic. Check back frequently for updates. If you have current requirements that the published limits do not address, contact your Citrix® representative for assistance as early as possible.

Configuration limits

If policies exceed the limit, Citrix recommends using the Workspace Environment Management service or Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
Resource Limit
Active Directory domains 250
Application folders 1,000
Application Groups 750
Applications 5,000
Catalogs 2,000
Delivery Groups 2,000
Host connections 200
Resource locations 250
Policies (Studio) 200
Tags 20,000
VDAs 130,000

Resource location limits

The following table lists the limits for each resource location.
If your requirements exceed these limits, Citrix recommends using additional resource locations.
Resource Limit
Total VDAs (hard limit) 10,000
Total sessions 25,000
Active Directory domains 1
Host connections 40
Citrix Cloud Connectors are assigned to resource locations and link workloads to Citrix DaaS. For information about Cloud Connector limits, see Size and scale considerations for Cloud Connectors.

Provisioning limits

The provisioning limits in the following table are the Citrix recommended maximums for a single public provider subscription.
You are likely to reach quota limits from your public cloud vendor at lower levels. In such cases, contact the vendor to raise your subscription quota. For larger-scale deployments, Citrix recommends a hub-and-spoke model, where VDAs are distributed across multiple subscriptions and host connections.
For more information, see the following reference architectures:
Resource Limit
VDAs per AWS region 3,000
VDAs per Google Cloud Platform project 3,000
VDA per Microsoft Azure subscription per region 5,000
Note:
The limits are Citrix recommended.

Usage limits

For information about administrator roles and the differences between them, see:
Resource Limit
Concurrent Monitor (Director) full administrators 40
Concurrent Monitor (Director) help desk administrators 200
Concurrent Monitor (Director) session administrators 50
Concurrent Manage (Studio) cloud administrators 100
Concurrent Manage (Studio) help desk administrators 60
Concurrent end users 125,000
Resources published to a single user 250
Session launches per minute 3,000
  • Monitor (Director) supports the aggregation of up to four Citrix DaaS™ tenants (spokes) under a single tenant (hub).
  • A help desk administrator on the hub instance can monitor and troubleshoot users, machines, endpoints, and transactions from all aggregated instances (hub and spokes) as per the Delegated Administration configuration on the specific instance.
  • The number of concurrent administrators per Citrix DaaS instance is as per the Usage Limits table.

Limits change log

The following table tracks the configuration limit modification:
Date Resource Description
18 Feb 2025 Configuration limit of Resource locations The limit increased from 200 to 250.
18 Feb 2025 Configuration limit of Active Directory domains The limit increased from 100 to 250.
18 Aug 2025 Configuration limit of Tags The limit increased from 10,000 to 20,000.
24 Feb 2025 Number of Application Groups The limit increased from 250 to 750.
24 Feb 2025 Number of VDAs The limit increased from 100,000 to 130,000.
12 Dec 2024 Resource locations The limit increased from 100 to 200.
23 May 2024 VDAs per AWS account per region The limit increased from 1500 to 3000.
22 Nov 2023 Active Directory domains Limit increased from 85 to 100.
Catalogs The limit increased from 1000 to 2000.
Delivery Groups The limit increased from 1000 to 2000.
Resource locations The limit increased from 85 to 100.
Resource location -> Total sessions Limit increased from 20,000 to 25,000.
04 Oct 2023 Tags The limit increased from 500 to 10,000.
07 Dec 2023 Provisioning limits -> VDA per Microsoft Azure subscription per region The limit increased from 2,500 to 5,000.