etcd Cluster
Indicative from-price range
Indicative from-price range for self-hosting etcd Cluster on 3 servers: about $72 to $337 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Peak request rate (ops/second): 5000; Database size (GB): 2; Active watches: 1000). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $72 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $147 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $190 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $192 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $199 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $199 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $787 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).
Reference workload
- Peak request rate (ops/second): 5000
- Database size (GB): 2
- Active watches: 1000
Methodology
This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 3, the smallest baseline topology (three-node). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.
Price sources
- Amazon Web Services: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json
- DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
- Google Cloud: https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus
- Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json
- Microsoft Azure: https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices
- OVHcloud: https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR
- Servers.com: https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal
Size etcd Cluster for your own workloadMarkdown versionFor AI agents (llms.txt)
etcd is a distributed, consistent key-value store used to hold the configuration data and coordination state of distributed systems, most notably as Kubernetes' primary datastore. It uses the Raft consensus algorithm to keep a cluster of nodes in agreement even as individual nodes fail.
Baseline topologies
| Topology | Minimum nodes | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| three-node | 3 | etcd-node |
| five-node | 5 | etcd-node |
What drives the cost
- Peak request rate (ops/second)
- Peak read/write operations per second. Drives CPU and disk I/O for WAL writes.
- Database size (GB)
- Total key-value database size. etcd keeps the entire dataset in memory; recommended limit is 8 GB.
Where it runs
bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm
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