Pricing options

Endurance tiers

Support a wide variety of application needs at your desired level with simple, pre-defined, per-gigabyte (GB) pricing tiers with performance up to 48,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS). File Storage Endurance tiers are ideal to meet the needs of workloads with low-intensity, general purpose and high-intensity performance requirements.

Volume pricing:

IOPS Tier

0.25 IOPS per GB

2 IOPS per GB

4 IOPS per GB

10 IOPS per GB*

Monthly price

USD 0.05

USD 0.12

USD 0.16

USD 0.48

Hourly price*

USD 0.0001

USD 0.0002

USD 0.0003

USD 0.0009

 

 

Snapshot and replication fees:

IOPS Tier

Monthly snapshot price per GB snapshot space

Hourly snapshot price* per GB snapshot space

Monthly replication fee per GB volume size

Hourly replication fee* per GB volume size

0.25 IOPS per GB

USD 0.05/GB

USD 0.005/GB

USD 0.02/GB

USD 0.002/GB

2 IOPS per GB

USD 0.10/GB

USD 0.010/GB

USD 0.125/GB

USD 0.013/GB

4 IOPS per GB

USD 0.15/GB

USD 0.015/GB

USD 0.25/GB

USD 0.025/GB

10 IOPS per GB

USD 0.20/GB

USD 0.020/GB

USD 0.50/GB

USD 0.051/GB

Performance options

Ultimate control over both storage capacity and total number of IOPS per storage volume. Provision storage in capacity up to 12 TB with a maximum of 48,000 IOPS. Block Storage Performance options are ideal for businesses with well-defined performance requirements that don’t fit within the tiers provided by Endurance.

Monthly pricing: USD 0.10 per GB + USD 0.07 per IOP

Hourly pricing: USD 0.0001 per GB + USD 0.0002 per IOP

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