CloudEstimate

Size Kong Gateway on Azure

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

Monthly cost

$158.16

Annual cost

$1,898/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $140.16
Storage $18.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Gateway 1 × Standard_D2s_v5 2 4 50 GB
Database 1 × Standard_D2s_v5 2 8 100 GB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small sizing supports Kong Gateway deployments with fewer than 1,000 configured entities and under 2,500 requests per second. Compute instances, specifically the two Standard_D2s_v5 VMs, are the dominant cost driver at $140.16 monthly. The architecture provisions two VMs with differing RAM and storage (4GB/50GB and 8GB/100GB) despite disabled high availability, suggesting a potential for future HA enablement or distinct workload separation.

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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: Azure pricing snapshot, retrieved May 9, 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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