With Amazon MSK, you pay only for what you use. There are no minimum fees or upfront commitments. You pay for the time your broker instances run, the storage you use monthly, and standard data transfer fees for data in and out of your cluster. You do not pay for Apache ZooKeeper nodes that Amazon MSK provisions for you, or data transfer that occurs between brokers and nodes within clusters.
Broker instance pricing
HOURLY INSTANCE USAGE
You pay for Apache Kafka broker instance usage on an hourly basis (billed at one second resolution), with varying fees depending on the size of the Apache Kafka broker instance and active brokers in your Amazon MSK clusters. See the Broker Instance Pricing Tables for details.
Broker storage pricing
With Amazon MSK, you pay for the amount of storage you provision in your cluster. This is calculated by adding up the GB per broker each hour and dividing by the number of hours in the month, resulting in a value in "GB-Months," as shown in the pricing example. See the Broker Storage Pricing Tables for details.
Data transfer fees
You are not charged for data transfer between brokers or between Apache ZooKeeper nodes and brokers. You will pay standard EC2 rates for data transferred in and out of Amazon MSK clusters.
Broker instance pricing tables
| Amazon MSK Broker Pricing | |
| kafka.t3.small - vCPU: 2, Memory (GiB): 2 | ¥ 0.2098 |
| kafka.m5.large - vCPU: 2, Memory (GiB): 8 | ¥ 1.485 |
| kafka.m5.xlarge - vCPU: 4, Memory (GiB): 16 | ¥ 2.97 |
| kafka.m5.2xlarge - vCPU: 8, Memory (GiB): 32 | ¥ 5.939 |
| kafka.m5.4xlarge - vCPU: 16, Memory (GiB): 64 | ¥ 11.879 |
| kafka.m5.12xlarge - vCPU: 48, Memory (GiB): 192 | ¥ 35.636 |
| kafka.m5.24xlarge - vCPU: 96, Memory (GiB): 394 | ¥ 71.271 |
| Amazon MSK Storage Pricing | |
| Price per GB-month | ¥ 0.664 |
| Amazon MSK Broker Pricing | |
| kafka.t3.small - vCPU: 2, Memory (GiB): 2 | ¥ 0.2878 |
| kafka.m5.large - vCPU: 2, Memory (GiB): 8 | ¥ 2.218 |
| kafka.m5.xlarge - vCPU: 4, Memory (GiB): 16 | ¥ 4.437 |
| kafka.m5.2xlarge - vCPU: 8, Memory (GiB): 32 | ¥ 8.874 |
| kafka.m5.4xlarge - vCPU: 16, Memory (GiB): 64 | ¥ 17.748 |
| kafka.m5.12xlarge - vCPU: 48, Memory (GiB): 192 | ¥ 53.243 |
| kafka.m5.24xlarge - vCPU: 96, Memory (GiB): 394 | ¥ 106.487 |
| Amazon MSK Storage Pricing | |
| Price per GB-month | ¥ 0.746 |
Get started with Amazon MSK
Learn how to set up your Apache Kafka cluster on Amazon MSK in this step-by-step guide.
Start running your Apache Kafka cluster on Amazon MSK. Log in to the Amazon MSK console.
