Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform
Self-managed Apache Kafka deployed with Confluent Platform for event streaming, durable logs, and integration pipelines.
Extra Small — single-node deployment for ingestion rates below 1 million samples per second
Monthly cost
$440.32
Annual cost
$5,284/year
| Compute | $280.32 |
| Storage | $160.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single Node | 1 × m6i.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | 2 TB |
VictoriaMetrics 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 64% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Single Node carries the heaviest storage footprint at 2 TB.
Share the current URL or copy the launch Terraform baseline.
Terraform export is available for Google Cloud at launch. AWS and Azure are deferred to v1.5. 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 April 12, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.
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.
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