Google Cloud
Region us-central1
$221.14
$2,654/year
| Compute | $195.64 |
| Storage | $25.50 |
| Other | $0.00 |
Component summary
- 1 × n2-standard-2 for Gateway
- 1 × n2-standard-2 for Database
Compare Kong Gateway across clouds
Extra Small — under 1,000 configured entities and under 2,500 requests per second
AWS
Region us-east-1
Lowest monthly cost
$152.16
$1,826/year
| Compute | $140.16 |
| Storage | $12.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
Component summary
- 1 × m6i.large for Gateway
- 1 × m6i.large for Database
Azure
Region eastus
$169.84
$2,038/year
| Compute | $151.84 |
| Storage | $18.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
Component summary
- 1 × Standard_D2s_v5 for Gateway
- 1 × Standard_D2s_v5 for Database
Why the totals differ
AWS is the lowest-cost option for Kong Gateway at the extra small tier, landing $68.98 per month below Google Cloud. This spread comes from instance and storage pricing in the default regions rather than commitment discounts, so the ranking reflects straight commercial list pricing. Without high availability, the totals stay closer together because there is less replicated capacity, but existing enterprise commitments or hybrid-use discounts could still change the real procurement outcome.
Sources
Reference architecture: Kong Gateway, version Kong Gateway 3.4.x resource sizing guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.
https://developer.konghq.com/gateway/resource-sizing-guidelines/
Pricing: Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure pricing snapshots retrieved April 12, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.