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Size Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform on Azure
Extra Small — up to 50 MB/s ingress with short retention windows
Monthly cost
$3,321.36
Annual cost
$39,856/year
Line-item breakdown
| Compute | $2,505.36 |
| Storage | $816.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
Components provisioned
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broker | 3 × Standard_D16s_v5 | 16 | 64 | 2 TB |
| Kraft Controller | 3 × Standard_D2s_v5 | 2 | 8 | 100 GB |
| Connect | 2 × Standard_D2s_v5 | 2 | 8 | 50 GB |
| Schema Registry | 2 × Standard_D2s_v5 | 2 | 8 | 50 GB |
| Control Center | 1 × Standard_D4s_v5 | 4 | 16 | 300 GB |
Why this sizing
Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform at the extra small tier maps to the departmental-cluster reference architecture on Azure in eastus. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 75% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Broker carries the heaviest storage footprint at 2 TB on each of its 3 nodes.
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Sources
Reference architecture: Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform for departmental-cluster, version Confluent Platform current self-managed deployment guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.
https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka/deployment.html
Pricing: Azure pricing snapshot, retrieved April 12, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.
Not included in this estimate
- Vendor licensing and support
- Professional services
- Network egress
- Compliance controls
- Backup storage
- Monitoring
Based on Confluent Platform self-managed deployment guidance and translated into VM-based planning tiers.
Estimate excludes producer and consumer application hosts, ksqlDB, Flink services, tiered storage, network transfer, and Confluent licensing.
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