Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform
Self-managed Apache Kafka deployed with Confluent Platform for event streaming, durable logs, and integration pipelines.
Extra Small — up to 100 GB hot index data on a single node
Monthly cost
$290.64
Annual cost
$3,488/year
| Compute | $195.64 |
| Storage | $95.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Node | 1 × n2-standard-4 | 4 | 16 | 500 GB |
Elasticsearch OSS at the extra small tier maps to the single-node reference architecture on Google Cloud in us-central1. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 67% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Node carries the heaviest storage footprint at 500 GB.
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terraform {
required_version = ">= 1.6.0"
required_providers {
google = {
source = "hashicorp/google"
version = "~> 6.0"
}
}
}
variable "project_id" {
description = "Google Cloud project ID for this deployment."
type = string
default = "replace-with-project-id"
}
provider "google" {
project = var.project_id
region = "us-central1"
zone = "us-central1-a"
}
# Generated for Google Cloud from the current estimate state.
resource "google_compute_disk" "node_1_data" {
count = 1
name = "elasticsearch-oss-node-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
type = "hyperdisk-balanced"
zone = "us-central1-a"
size = 500
}
resource "google_compute_instance" "node_1" {
count = 1
name = "elasticsearch-oss-node-1-${count.index + 1}"
machine_type = "n2-standard-4"
zone = "us-central1-a"
boot_disk {
initialize_params {
image = "projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-12"
size = 50
type = "pd-balanced"
}
}
network_interface {
network = "default"
access_config {}
}
attached_disk {
source = google_compute_disk.node_1_data[count.index].id
mode = "READ_WRITE"
}
labels = {
app = "elasticsearch-oss"
role = "node"
}
}
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: Google Cloud pricing snapshot, retrieved April 12, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.
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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