Size VictoriaMetrics on AWS

Extra Small — single-node deployment for ingestion rates below 1 million samples per second

Monthly cost

$440.32

Annual cost

$5,284/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute	$280.32
Storage	$160.00
Other	$0.00

Components provisioned

Role	Instance	vCPU	GB RAM	Storage
Single Node	1 × m6i.2xlarge	8	32	2 TB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small single-node VictoriaMetrics deployment supports ingestion rates under 1 million samples per second. Compute is the dominant cost driver, accounting for 64% of the $440.32 monthly total. The single-node architecture with disabled high availability means there is no redundancy for this deployment.

Export

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Google Cloud Terraform baseline

Terraform export is available for Google Cloud at launch. AWS and Azure are deferred to v1.5.

Sources

Reference architecture: VictoriaMetrics for single-node, version VictoriaMetrics cluster version current documentation, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://docs.victoriametrics.com/cluster-victoriametrics/

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 VictoriaMetrics cluster documentation and translated into VM-based planning tiers for single-node and clustered self-managed deployments.

Estimate excludes object storage backups, vmagent fan-out, vmauth policy layers beyond the generic load balancer role, and workload-specific tuning from a production test run.