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Cloud Architecture Blueprints — What 4 Workloads Actually Cost (2026)

Four reference architectures, each priced across all 10 providers in the catalog by the same engine as the live estimator. Open one to see the per-provider totals, the cost topology, and every assumption behind the number — then load it into the calculator and change whatever you disagree with.

Architecture blueprints

SaaS Starter MVP

Ideal for early-stage startups and production web apps with up to 25k monthly active users.

A resilient, scalable 2-tier setup featuring 2 compute instances for high availability, 250 GB managed Postgres database with automated backups, 500 GB object storage for media, and load balancing.

Cheapest provider
AWS — $277/mo
Provider spread
31% between cheapest and dearest
Best for: Early startups, MVPs, B2B SaaS applications

High-Traffic E-Commerce

Engineered for high concurrent checkouts, product catalogs, and intensive flash sales.

High-availability architecture with 6 medium instances, Multi-AZ relational database with read replication capacity, 2 TB hot storage with global CDN egress, and redundant load balancing.

Cheapest provider
AWS — $1,592/mo
Provider spread
13% between cheapest and dearest
Best for: Online retail, flash-sale platforms, payment processing

Enterprise Microservices (K8s)

Multi-service containerized architecture with managed Kubernetes clusters and service mesh.

Managed Kubernetes cluster (EKS/AKS/GKE) with 8 worker nodes (4 vCPU / 16 GB RAM each), dedicated multi-AZ database, 5 TB object storage, and heavy data transfer across private services.

Cheapest provider
AWS — $2,935/mo
Provider spread
4% between cheapest and dearest
Best for: Microservices, FinTech, high-availability multi-tenant platforms

AI / ML Inference & Pipeline

Compute and memory-optimized instances designed for low-latency LLM serving and vector retrieval.

High-throughput architecture featuring high-capacity compute instances, scalable object storage for model weights and dataset embeddings, managed database for metadata, and high bandwidth egress.

Cheapest provider
Azure — $3,321/mo
Provider spread
19% between cheapest and dearest
Best for: GenAI applications, model hosting, real-time embeddings search

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