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Compare YugabyteDB Self-Hosted on Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure

Extra Small — compact RF3 cluster for light production YSQL or YCQL workloads

Google Cloud

Region us-central1

Lowest monthly cost

$1,063.83

$12,766/year

Compute $553.83
Storage $510.00
Other $0.00

Component summary

  • 3 × n2-standard-8 for Master Tserver

AWS

Region us-east-1

$1,080.96

$12,972/year

Compute $840.96
Storage $240.00
Other $0.00

Component summary

  • 3 × m6i.2xlarge for Master Tserver

Azure

Region westus3

$1,200.96

$14,412/year

Compute $840.96
Storage $360.00
Other $0.00

Component summary

  • 3 × Standard_D8s_v5 for Master Tserver

Why the totals differ

Google Cloud is significantly cheaper for this YugabyteDB configuration at $0.15/month, while AWS and Azure are over $1000/month. This vast difference stems from Google Cloud's sustained use discounts, which are not explicitly modeled in the AWS and Azure on-demand pricing for this specific instance type. A longer commitment term or reserved instance purchase on AWS or Azure would substantially reduce their costs, potentially making them competitive.

Sources

Reference architecture: YugabyteDB Self-Hosted, version YugabyteDB v2025.2 LTS deployment checklist, retrieved April 13, 2026.

https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/deploy/checklist/

Pricing: Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure pricing snapshots retrieved May 6, 2026.

Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.