Size Jira Data Center on Google Cloud

Large — 600,000 to 2,000,000 issues or 10,000 to 100,000 users

Monthly cost

$978.20

Annual cost

$11,738/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute	$978.20
Storage	$0.00
Other	$0.00

Components provisioned

Role	Instance	vCPU	GB RAM	Storage
Application	2 × n2-standard-8	8	16	—
Database	1 × n2-standard-4	4	16	—

Why this sizing

Jira Data Center at the large tier maps to the large reference architecture on Google Cloud in us-central1. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 100% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. This tier is primarily a compute sizing exercise rather than a storage-heavy one.

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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_instance" "application_1" {
  count        = 2
  name         = "jira-data-center-application-1-${count.index + 1}"
  machine_type = "n2-standard-8"
  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 {}
  }

  labels = {
    app  = "jira-data-center"
    role = "application"
  }
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "database_2" {
  count        = 1
  name         = "jira-data-center-database-2-${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 {}
  }

  labels = {
    app  = "jira-data-center"
    role = "database"
  }
}

Sources

Reference architecture: Jira Data Center for large, version Jira Data Center 9.12 benchmark guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/infrastructure-recommendations-for-enterprise-jira-instances-on-aws-1409092894.html

Pricing: Google Cloud 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

Estimate excludes shared-home storage, managed database Multi-AZ overhead, Marketplace app overhead, and other supporting services not explicitly sized in the recommendation summary.

The HA toggle models front-end load balancer overhead only; Atlassian Data Center clustering itself is already represented in the base node counts.