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Size Kong Gateway on Google Cloud
Extra Small — under 1,000 configured entities and under 2,500 requests per second
Monthly cost
$221.14
Annual cost
$2,654/year
Line-item breakdown
| Compute | $195.64 |
| Storage | $25.50 |
| Other | $0.00 |
Components provisioned
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway | 1 × n2-standard-2 | 2 | 4 | 50 GB |
| Database | 1 × n2-standard-2 | 2 | 8 | 100 GB |
Why this sizing
Kong Gateway at the extra small tier maps to the small reference architecture on Google Cloud in us-central1. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 88% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Database carries the heaviest storage footprint at 100 GB.
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Google Cloud Terraform baseline
terraform {
required_version = ">= 1.6.0"
required_providers {
google = {
source = "hashicorp/google"
version = "~> 6.0"
}
}
}
variable "project_id" {
description = "Google Cloud project ID for this deployment."
type = string
default = "replace-with-project-id"
}
provider "google" {
project = var.project_id
region = "us-central1"
zone = "us-central1-a"
}
# Generated for Google Cloud from the current estimate state.
resource "google_compute_disk" "gateway_1_data" {
count = 1
name = "kong-gateway-gateway-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
type = "pd-ssd"
zone = "us-central1-a"
size = 50
}
resource "google_compute_instance" "gateway_1" {
count = 1
name = "kong-gateway-gateway-1-${count.index + 1}"
machine_type = "n2-standard-2"
zone = "us-central1-a"
boot_disk {
initialize_params {
image = "projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-12"
size = 50
type = "pd-balanced"
}
}
network_interface {
network = "default"
access_config {}
}
attached_disk {
source = google_compute_disk.gateway_1_data[count.index].id
mode = "READ_WRITE"
}
labels = {
app = "kong-gateway"
role = "gateway"
}
}
resource "google_compute_disk" "database_2_data" {
count = 1
name = "kong-gateway-database-2-data-${count.index + 1}"
type = "pd-ssd"
zone = "us-central1-a"
size = 100
}
resource "google_compute_instance" "database_2" {
count = 1
name = "kong-gateway-database-2-${count.index + 1}"
machine_type = "n2-standard-2"
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 {}
}
attached_disk {
source = google_compute_disk.database_2_data[count.index].id
mode = "READ_WRITE"
}
labels = {
app = "kong-gateway"
role = "database"
}
}
Related views
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: Google Cloud 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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