Cloud Storage Prices
Block Storage
Block storage units are disk volumes attached to virtual servers. Those volumes are accessed through the file system. They can be either SSD or HDD. Disk volumes can often be moved from one server to another and persist even without being attached to any server.
| Provider | Price / GB / month | Restriction | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud | $0.080 | "Capacity" type Pay as You Go Network Access Storage in US East |
"Performance" type NAS is $0.30/GB for Pay as you go in the US east region.
https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/nas/pricing |
| Amazon EC2 | $0.045 |
Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) Volumes
https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/ |
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| Amazon EC2 | $0.100 |
General purpose SSD.
AWS also offer cold HDD for $0.025/GB/month.
https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/ |
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| Amazon Lightsail | $0.100 | https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/#Billing_and_account_management | |
| Atlantic.Net | $0.079 | 50 GB Free to Use for One Year |
Designed for 100% availability, Secure Block Storage (SBS) is automatically replicated multiple times to protect your data from component failure
https://www.atlantic.net/cloud-hosting/block-storage/ |
| BuyVM | $0.005 | 256GB minimum |
Called Block Storage Slabs. You must own a VPS (Slice) to have a "Slab". Slabs can be attached or moved to any Slice in the same datacenter.
Often unavailable.
https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/ |
| DigitalOcean | $0.100 |
Volumes are encrypted at rest, replicated multiple times and can be resized live.
https://www.digitalocean.com/products/block-storage/ |
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| Genesis Public Cloud | $0.080 |
gp1: General Purpose (3k IOPS max / 0.5GiB/sec max / 1GiB min / 4TiB max)
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#volumetypes |
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| Genesis Public Cloud | $0.100 |
gp2: General Purpose (3 IOPS/GiB, 50k IOPS and 10 Million IO burst, 300 IOPS min / 3k IOPS max, 10GiB min size / 4TiB max)
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#volumetypes |
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| Genesis Public Cloud | $0.180 |
gp3: General Purpose (6 IOPS/GiB, 100k IOPS and 20 Million IO burst, 600 IOPS min / 6k IOPS max, 10GiB min / 4TiB max)
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#volumetypes |
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| Google Compute Engine | $0.170 | SSD Provisioned space |
Called "Persistent Disk" at Google. Also available in Standard form on HDD at $0.04/GB/month. https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/ |
| Hetzner | €0.040 | 10GB minimum |
Billed hourly
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud |
| Kamatera | $0.050 |
The Cloud Block Storage engine is a fully redundant, enterprise-grade storage system. Storage pricing is calculated by the minute.
https://www.kamatera.com/express/compute/products.php?id=cloud_block_storage#prd2 |
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| Linode | $0.100 | 10GB minimum size |
Replicated 3 times.
https://www.linode.com/blockstorage |
| LunaNode | $0.030 |
LunaNode volumes can be used as boot devices and you will only be charged for the portion of the volume size that exceeds the storage space included with the VM.
https://www.lunanode.com/features/volumes |
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| Microsoft Azure | $0.156 | Prices decrease with disk size. LRS. |
Called "Managed disks". Throughput increases with disk size: 25MB/second for 32GB disk. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/ |
| OVHcloud | $0.090 |
Triple replication. $0.09 is for High Speed Volumes. Also available as "Classic Volumes" at lower speeds for $0.045/GB/month. https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/ |
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| Scaleway | €0.080 | https://www.scaleway.com/en/block-storage/ | |
| UpCloud | $0.220 |
UpCloud storage is MaxIOPS, it offers the performance of multiple enterprise-grade SSDs for the price of one.
https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/ |
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| Vultr | $0.100 | 10GB minimum |
Each volume is replicated 3 times across a highly available cluster.
https://www.vultr.com/pricing/blockstorage/ |
Object Storage
Object storage is for storing files in the cloud. Object storage files can be accessed through an API made available by the provider. Snapshots are sometimes saved into Object Storage. Network bandwidth is normally charged on top of the storage costs.
| Provider | Price / GB / month | Restriction | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud | $0.018 | First 5GB are free |
Standard Storage. Infrequent and Archive storage option are also available for lower prices.
https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/oss/pricing |
| Amazon EC2 | $0.023 | Standard, for the first 50TB. |
AWS S3 also offers infrequent access and Glacier object storage for lower prices.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ |
| Aruba Cloud | €0.050 | 10GB minimum |
This is the pay-per-use price. Outgoing traffic is €0.05 per GB. API is S3 compatible. https://www.arubacloud.com/object-storage/pricing.aspx |
| DigitalOcean | $0.020 | 250GB minimum |
Object storage is called "Spaces" at DO. $5 for 250GB/month that include 1TB of outbound transfer (CDN included) https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/ |
| Genesis Public Cloud | $0.010 |
S3 and Swift compatible. Triple replication. No additional cost for bandwidth and traffic.
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#objectstorage |
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| Google Compute Engine | $0.026 | Multi Regional Storage. First 5GB free. |
Object storage is called "Cloud Storage" at Google. Nearline and Coldline storage are also available at lower prices and speeds. https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing |
| Linode | $0.020 | 250GB minimum |
1 TB Outbound Transfer.
Up to 50 Million Objects per Cluster.
https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/ |
| Microsoft Azure | $0.021 | First 50TB, Hot, General purpose v2, LRS |
Called "Azure Storage Blobs". Also available as Cool or Archive storage at lower prices. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/ |
| OVHcloud | $0.011 |
Based on OpenStack Swift technology. Triple replication Free incoming traffic Outgoing traffic: $0.011/GB https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/ |
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| Scaleway | €0.010 |
First 75GB free.
Traffic free up to 75GB then 0.01€/GB.
https://www.scaleway.com/en/object-storage/ |
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| Vultr | $0.020 | 250GB minimum |
Includes 1000GB of bandwidth.
https://www.vultr.com/products/object-storage/#pricing |
Backups
Backups allow storing copies of disk volumes. They can be used to restore a server state to a state at some other point in time. The concepts of Backups and Snapshots largely overlap. Some providers offer both features, some others only one of them. The main difference is that backups are often tied to a particular server and providers add scheduling functions on top of the backups so that users don't need to manually manage them.
| Provider | Price / GB / month | Restriction | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aruba Cloud | €0.150 | 10GB minimum |
This is the pay-per-use price. Backups can be scheduled on an hourly, daily or weekly basis. https://www.arubacloud.com/cloud-backup/price-list.aspx |
| Clouding.io | €0.020 |
Clouding.io lets you choose number of backups to retain and frequency of backups. You can then restore full servers from the backup of your choice.
https://clouding.io/kb/en-us/articles/360011156739 |
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| DigitalOcean | $0.050 | Prices vary depending on droplet size. |
Prices vary depending on droplet size: backups are 20% of droplet storage cost. When backups are enabled, DO will create a disk image of the droplet once per week and will keep it for 4 weeks. https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/backups/ |
| Genesis Public Cloud | $0.010 |
Genesis Public Cloud has backups for $0.01/GiB/month and compresses, then stores, the backups onto object storage.
https://genesishosting.com/genesis_public_cloud_vm_pricing_table.html#backups |
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| Hetzner | €0.025 | Around €0.025 for CS instances. Prices vary depending on instance size. |
20% of instance price. Backups are automatically scheduled. Up to 7 backups can be stored. https://www.hetzner.com/cloud |
| IONOS by 1&1 | $0.120 | Price is lower for preset backup sizes |
Backups can be encrypted, scheduled and versioned.
https://www.ionos.com/cloud/cloud-backup |
| Linode | $0.050 | $0.05 for 2GB Linode. 25% of instance price in general. |
Prices vary depending on instance size: 25% of instance price.
Backups are automatically scheduled.
https://www.linode.com/products/backups/ |
| UpCloud | $0.050 |
UpCloud Simple Backups are automatically scheduled with 3 options: 7 daily backups, 4 weekly backups, 12 monthly backups. Prices respectively 20%, 40% or 60% of VPS price in addition to $0.05/GB/month.
https://upcloud.com/products/backup/ |
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| Vultr | $0.050 | Prices vary depending on instance size |
Actual price is 20% of the instance. Backups are automatically scheduled and the 2 most recent ones are preserved at all times. https://www.vultr.com/docs/vps-automatic-backups |
Snapshots
Snapshots are images of disk volumes. They can be created at any time from any volume and can be restored to other same size volumes or even used to create a brand new server based on a snapshot image.
| Provider | Price / GB / month | Restriction | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud | $0.018 | First 5GB are free |
US-East price
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/56159.htm |
| Amazon Lightsail | $0.050 | https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/#Billing_and_account_management | |
| Atlantic.Net | $0.050 | First 50GB are free for one year |
Point-in-time copy of your Cloud Server's local storage.
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| Clouding.io | €0.020 |
Entire server snapshots can be made in seconds at any point in time.
https://clouding.io/kb/en-us/articles/360010121480 |
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| DigitalOcean | $0.050 |
Snapshots are created on users requests and are images of block storage disk volumes.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/snapshots/ |
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| Google Compute Engine | $0.026 | https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk#persistent-disk-pricing | |
| Hetzner | €0.010 |
These are manual backups and can be created at any time.
https://www.hetzner.com/cloud |
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| LunaNode | $0.030 |
Snapshots are created on users requests and are images of block storage disk volumes. They can be used to clone VMs
https://www.lunanode.com/features/snapshots |
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| OVHcloud | $0.011 |
Goes to object storage.
https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/prices/ |
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