Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform
Self-managed Apache Kafka deployed with Confluent Platform for event streaming, durable logs, and integration pipelines.
Extra Small — up to 20 TB usable capacity on a single multi-drive node
Monthly cost
$4,951.28
Annual cost
$59,415/year
| Compute | $391.28 |
| Storage | $4,560.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Storage Node | 1 × n2-standard-8 | 8 | 32 | 24 TB |
MinIO at the extra small tier maps to the single-node-multi-drive reference architecture on Google Cloud in us-central1. Storage is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 92% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Storage Node carries the heaviest storage footprint at 24 TB.
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terraform {
required_version = ">= 1.6.0"
required_providers {
google = {
source = "hashicorp/google"
version = "~> 6.0"
}
}
}
variable "project_id" {
description = "Google Cloud project ID for this deployment."
type = string
default = "replace-with-project-id"
}
provider "google" {
project = var.project_id
region = "us-central1"
zone = "us-central1-a"
}
# Generated for Google Cloud from the current estimate state.
resource "google_compute_disk" "storage_node_1_data" {
count = 1
name = "minio-storage-node-1-data-${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"
}
}
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.
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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