Size Confluence Data Center on AWS

Medium — 500,000 to 2.5 million content items or 70,000 to 350,000 HTTP calls per hour

Monthly cost

$420.48

Annual cost

$5,046/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute	$420.48
Storage	$0.00
Other	$0.00

Components provisioned

Role	Instance	vCPU	GB RAM	Storage
Application	2 × m6i.xlarge	4	8	—
Database	1 × m6i.large	2	8	—
Synchrony	1 × m6i.large	2	4	—

Why this sizing

This sizing supports a Confluence Data Center deployment managing 500,000 to 2.5 million content items or up to 350,000 HTTP calls per hour. Compute instances are the sole cost driver for this tier, totaling $420.48 monthly for 12 vCPUs and 28 GB RAM across four instances.

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Sources

Reference architecture: Confluence Data Center for medium, version Confluence Data Center 6.13-6.15 benchmark guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/confluence-data-center-infrastructure-recommendations-1409093099.html

Pricing: AWS pricing snapshot, retrieved May 6, 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

Estimate excludes shared-home EFS/NFS storage, collaborative editing proxy details, Marketplace app overhead, and managed database HA costs not captured in the benchmark summary.

The HA toggle models load balancer overhead only; clustered Confluence application and Synchrony nodes are already represented in the base deployment.