Apache Kafka via Confluent Platform
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Extra Small — compact RF3 cluster for light production YSQL or YCQL workloads
Monthly cost
$1,063.83
Annual cost
$12,766/year
| Compute | $553.83 |
| Storage | $510.00 |
| Other | $0.00 |
| Role | Instance | vCPU | GB RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master Tserver | 3 × n2-standard-8 | 8 | 32 | 1 TB |
This Extra Small, three-node YugabyteDB cluster is designed for light production YSQL or YCQL workloads, providing a compact RF3 deployment. The primary cost driver is compute, accounting for the entire $0.15 monthly cost. This tier disables high availability, meaning the cluster is not resilient to zone or region outages.
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terraform {
required_version = ">= 1.6.0"
required_providers {
google = {
source = "hashicorp/google"
version = "~> 6.0"
}
}
}
variable "project_id" {
description = "Google Cloud project ID for this deployment."
type = string
default = "replace-with-project-id"
}
provider "google" {
project = var.project_id
region = "us-central1"
zone = "us-central1-a"
}
# Generated for Google Cloud from the current estimate state.
resource "google_compute_disk" "master_tserver_1_data" {
count = 3
name = "yugabytedb-self-hosted-master-tserver-1-data-${count.index + 1}"
type = "pd-ssd"
zone = "us-central1-a"
size = 1000
}
resource "google_compute_instance" "master_tserver_1" {
count = 3
name = "yugabytedb-self-hosted-master-tserver-1-${count.index + 1}"
machine_type = "n2-standard-8"
zone = "us-central1-a"
boot_disk {
initialize_params {
image = "projects/debian-cloud/global/images/family/debian-12"
size = 50
type = "pd-balanced"
}
}
network_interface {
network = "default"
access_config {}
}
attached_disk {
source = google_compute_disk.master_tserver_1_data[count.index].id
mode = "READ_WRITE"
}
labels = {
app = "yugabytedb-self-hosted"
role = "master-tserver"
}
}
Reference architecture: YugabyteDB Self-Hosted for rf3-three-node, version YugabyteDB v2025.2 LTS deployment checklist, retrieved April 13, 2026.
https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/deploy/checklist/
Pricing: Google Cloud pricing snapshot, retrieved May 6, 2026.
Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.
Based on YugabyteDB deployment checklist guidance and public RF3 deployment examples, translated into VM-based planning tiers.
Estimate excludes backup controllers, xCluster replication, connection-manager sidecars, and multi-region networking or quorum placement costs.
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