CloudEstimate

Size Elasticsearch OSS on AWS

Extra Small — up to 100 GB hot index data on a single node

Monthly cost

$202.66

Annual cost

$2,432/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $140.16
Storage $62.50
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Node 1 × m6i.xlarge 4 16 500 GB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small tier supports up to 100 GB of hot index data on a single Elasticsearch node. The primary cost driver is compute, accounting for 69% of the total monthly cost at $140.16. This configuration provides a cost-effective entry point but lacks high availability, making it unsuitable for production workloads requiring uptime guarantees.

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Sources

Reference architecture: Elasticsearch OSS for single-node, version Current self-managed guidance; OSS distribution lineage froze at 7.10, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/important-settings.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

Based on Elastic's public self-managed operational guidance and translated into a legacy OSS-style VM baseline.

Estimate excludes snapshots, warm or frozen tiers, security features tied to commercial distributions, machine learning nodes, and network transfer.

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