Size MinIO on Azure

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

Monthly cost

$2,207.52

Annual cost

$26,490/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute	$280.32
Storage	$1,927.20
Other	$0.00

Components provisioned

Role	Instance	vCPU	GB RAM	Storage
Storage Node	1 × Standard_D8s_v5	8	32	24 TB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small MinIO deployment provides up to 20 TB of usable capacity on a single node, suitable for initial development or small-scale data storage. Storage is the dominant cost driver, accounting for 87% of the total monthly expenditure at $1927.20. The single-node architecture, while cost-effective for compute, eliminates high availability, meaning a node failure results in downtime.

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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: Azure 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.