CloudEstimate

Size OpenSearch on AWS

Extra Small — up to 100 GB hot index data on a single node

Monthly cost

$185.16

Annual cost

$2,222/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $140.16
Storage $45.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Node 1 × m6i.xlarge 4 16 500 GB

Why this sizing

OpenSearch at the extra small tier maps to the single-node reference architecture on AWS in us-east-1. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 76% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Node carries the heaviest storage footprint at 500 GB.

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Sources

Reference architecture: OpenSearch for single-node, version OpenSearch 2.17 cluster tuning guidance, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://docs.opensearch.org/docs/2.17/tuning-your-cluster/

Pricing: AWS 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 OpenSearch cluster tuning and operational guidance, translated into VM-based planning tiers.

Estimate excludes warm or cold tiers, snapshots, machine-learning plugins, remote storage, and network transfer.

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