Size MinIO on AWS

Extra Small — up to 20 TB usable capacity on a single multi-drive node

Monthly cost

$3,280.32

Annual cost

$39,364/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute	$280.32
Storage	$3,000.00
Other	$0.00

Components provisioned

Role	Instance	vCPU	GB RAM	Storage
Storage Node	1 × m6i.2xlarge	8	32	24 TB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small, single-node MinIO deployment provides up to 20 TB of usable capacity on a single m6i.2xlarge instance. The primary cost driver is storage, accounting for over 90% of the total monthly cost at $3000. This configuration offers high performance with local NVMe storage but lacks high availability, making it unsuitable for production workloads requiring fault tolerance.

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Sources

Reference architecture: MinIO for single-node-multi-drive, version Community install topologies with current MinIO reference hardware, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/installation.html

Pricing: AWS pricing snapshot, retrieved May 6, 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 MinIO community deployment topologies and public reference hardware guidance, translated into VM-based object-storage planning tiers.

Estimate excludes external load balancers beyond the small HA add-on, raw-to-usable erasure coding overhead, backups, replication, and high-bandwidth networking costs.