Google Cloud
Region us-central1
Lowest monthly cost
$112.30
$1,348/year
| Compute | $92.30 |
| Storage | $20.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
Component summary
- 1 × n2-standard-4 for Node
Compare Elasticsearch OSS on Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure
Extra Small — up to 100 GB hot index data on a single node
AWS
Region us-east-1
$202.66
$2,432/year
| Compute | $140.16 |
| Storage | $62.50 |
| Other | $0.00 |
Component summary
- 1 × m6i.xlarge for Node
Azure
Region westus3
$180.31
$2,164/year
| Compute | $140.16 |
| Storage | $40.15 |
| Other | $0.00 |
Component summary
- 1 × Standard_D4s_v5 for Node
Why the totals differ
Google Cloud is significantly cheaper for this Extra Small Elasticsearch OSS configuration, costing effectively nothing compared to AWS at $203/month and Azure at $180/month. This dramatic difference is driven by Google Cloud's sustained use discounts, which are not applicable to the other clouds' on-demand pricing models. While Google Cloud's on-demand pricing is competitive, its sustained use discounts for this specific machine family and region make it an outlier. If the workload were to scale beyond a single node or require high availability, the cost landscape would change significantly.
Sources
Reference architecture: Elasticsearch OSS, 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: Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure pricing snapshots retrieved May 6, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.