CloudEstimate

Size Redpanda Self-Managed on AWS

Extra Small — starter three-broker production cluster for durable event streaming

Monthly cost

$795.48

Annual cost

$9,546/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $420.48
Storage $375.00
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Broker 3 × m6i.xlarge 4 16 1 TB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small Redpanda cluster, consisting of three m6i.xlarge instances, is designed for a starter production environment requiring durable event streaming. The primary cost driver at this tier is compute, accounting for 53% of the total monthly cost. This configuration utilizes NVMe storage for performance, but disabling high availability means the cluster is not resilient to single-node failures.

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Sources

Reference architecture: Redpanda Self-Managed for three-broker-small, version Redpanda current production requirements, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://docs.redpanda.com/current/deploy/redpanda/manual/production/requirements/

Pricing: AWS 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 Redpanda self-managed production requirements and translated into VM-based planning tiers.

Estimate excludes Redpanda Console, Connect workloads, tiered storage object costs, and the producer and consumer applications that use the cluster.

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