# Discussion about the hardware sizing for kafka

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/discussion-about-the-hardware-sizing-for-kafka/7479>\
**Category:** Kafka Streams\
**Created:** [24 March 2023 05:55 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/discussion-about-the-hardware-sizing-for-kafka/7479 "2023-03-24T05:55:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rajeshwa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@Rajeshwa](https://forum.confluent.io/u/Rajeshwa)\
**Post date:** [24 March 2023 05:55 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/discussion-about-the-hardware-sizing-for-kafka/7479/1 "2023-03-24T05:55:07Z")

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i am deploying apache kafka on aws and my requirements is 100 MB and tens of thousands of events per second and daily 10 gb data is coming so what is the hardware sizing for kafka tell me ram, number of nodes and ssd storage and number of vcpu for above requirement.