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 25 peak logins per second
Monthly cost
$175.84
Annual cost
$2,110/year
| Compute | $151.84 |
| Storage | $24.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keycloak | 1 × Standard_D2s_v5 | 2 | 8 | 100 GB |
| Database | 1 × Standard_D2s_v5 | 2 | 8 | 100 GB |
Keycloak at the extra small tier maps to the single-node-small reference architecture on Azure in eastus. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 86% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Keycloak carries the heaviest storage footprint at 100 GB.
Share the current URL or copy the launch Terraform baseline.
Terraform export is available for Google Cloud at launch. AWS and Azure are deferred to v1.5. Reference architecture: Keycloak for single-node-small, version Keycloak current high-availability sizing guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.
https://www.keycloak.org/high-availability/single-cluster/concepts-memory-and-cpu-sizing
Pricing: Azure pricing snapshot, retrieved April 12, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.
Based on Keycloak's official HA sizing concepts and translated into VM-based planning inputs for self-managed deployments.
Estimate excludes external IdPs, SMTP, user federation backends, separate caching infrastructure, and license costs for any commercial database choice.
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