Size Jira Data Center on Google Cloud

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

Monthly cost

$461.52

Annual cost

$5,538/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute	$461.52
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

This sizing supports a large Jira Data Center deployment, accommodating 600,000 to 2,000,000 issues or 10,000 to 100,000 users, with two n2-standard-8 nodes and one n2-standard-4 node. The primary cost driver is compute, accounting for the entire $0.13 monthly cost. This configuration prioritizes a large user/issue count over high availability, as HA is disabled, which significantly reduces infrastructure complexity and cost.

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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 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 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.