CloudEstimate

Size MinIO on Google Cloud

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

Monthly cost

$1,144.61

Annual cost

$13,735/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $184.61
Storage $960.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

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

Why this sizing

This Extra Small, single-node MinIO deployment provides up to 20 TB of usable capacity on a single `n2-standard-8` instance. The dominant cost driver is the compute instance itself, priced at $0.05/month, which includes the NVMe storage. This configuration offers high performance due to local NVMe, but lacks high availability as it's a single node.

Export

Share the current URL or copy the launch Terraform baseline.

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 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.

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