CloudEstimate

Size Kong Gateway on AWS

Extra Small — under 1,000 configured entities and under 2,500 requests per second

Monthly cost

$152.16

Annual cost

$1,826/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $140.16
Storage $12.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Gateway 1 × m6i.large 2 4 50 GB
Database 1 × m6i.large 2 8 100 GB

Why this sizing

Kong Gateway at the extra small tier maps to the small reference architecture on AWS in us-east-1. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 92% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Database carries the heaviest storage footprint at 100 GB.

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Sources

Reference architecture: Kong Gateway for small, version Kong Gateway 3.4.x resource sizing guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/resource-sizing-guidelines/

Pricing: AWS 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

Based on Kong Gateway resource sizing guidance and deployment topology documentation, translated into VM-based planning tiers.

Estimate excludes Redis-backed rate limiting, developer portal services, Konnect, and workload-specific tuning or benchmark exercises.

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