CloudEstimate

Size MinIO on Google Cloud

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

Monthly cost

$4,951.28

Annual cost

$59,415/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $391.28
Storage $4,560.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Storage Node 1 × n2-standard-8 8 32 24 TB

Why this sizing

MinIO at the extra small tier maps to the single-node-multi-drive reference architecture on Google Cloud in us-central1. Storage is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 92% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Storage Node carries the heaviest storage footprint at 24 TB.

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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" "storage_node_1_data" {
  count = 1
  name  = "minio-storage-node-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
  type  = "hyperdisk-balanced"
  zone  = "us-central1-a"
  size  = 24000
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "storage_node_1" {
  count        = 1
  name         = "minio-storage-node-1-${count.index + 1}"
  machine_type = "n2-standard-8"
  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.storage_node_1_data[count.index].id
    mode   = "READ_WRITE"
  }

  labels = {
    app  = "minio"
    role = "storage-node"
  }
}

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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: 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 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.

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