Know what cloud storage will cost before you commit to it.
Know the cost.Understand the consequence.
The same workload can cost very different amounts from one provider to the next. The difference hides in the charges a price page leaves out. CloudVerdict prices every one of them, and shows the provider page each figure came from.
Priced at each provider’s current published list prices
Sample verdict
Long-term archive
1,024 TiB, growing 0.5% a month
Kept 2,555 days, locked against deletion throughout
Over 10 years
Cheapest of the 36 options priced in full
$315,138.42
$1,922.99 per PiB-month, all in. Storage $1,888.78, everything else $34.21.
Microsoft Azure · Azure Archive LRS in uksouth
01Microsoft Azure$315,138.42Cheapest · $1,922.99 per PiB-month all in
02AWS$316,543.70Under 1% more than the cheapest · $1,931.57 per PiB-month all in
03Google Cloud$447,147.9242% more than the cheapest · $2,728.52 per PiB-month all in
04Wasabi$1,360,375.134.3 times the cheapest · $8,301.08 per PiB-month all in
05Cloudflare R2$1,848,295.705.9 times the cheapest · $11,278.39 per PiB-month all in
The spread over 10 years
$1,533,157.28
between the cheapest and the dearest provider for the same workload. The dearest costs 5.9 times as much.
Microsoft Azure$315,138.42Cloudflare R2$1,848,295.70
A difference in modelled cost at published list prices, not a quotation or a promised saving. The cheapest carries the warnings below, and only you can say whether they rule it out.
The lowest storage rate is not always the lowest bill
Anyone can read a price page. What decides the cost is what it leaves out, and that is what your finance team asks about:
01
Retrieval
The retrieval charges nobody mentioned
02
Early deletion
The early deletion penalty on the cheap tier
03
Leaving
What it costs to leave
04
Your usage
Whether the provider you were told to pick is genuinely cheaper for the way your data is really used
The cost of a guess
A missed charge does not disappear. It turns up on the bill.
The figure you give becomes the budget. When the charges nobody quoted arrive, the difference is yours to explain.
Explained to
Finance
A customer
Whoever signed it off
Before
The quote
StorageQuoted
The totalLooked complete
4charges it left off
After
The bill
StorageQuoted
Writes and readsNot quoted
RetrievalNot quoted
Early deletionNot quoted
Data outNot quoted
The differenceYours to explain
When it matters
The moments that decide your storage bill
Most storage is chosen once and paid for every month after. Price it properly at any of these 4, and the decision holds for years.
Choosing for something new
Compare every provider and storage class before you commit, while changing your mind still costs nothing.
Which provider should this go on?
Reviewing what you already pay
Describe the workload you run today and see what the same use would cost elsewhere, every charge included.
Are we on the right provider?
Making the case for approval
Put a comparison in front of finance, procurement, or a customer with the source of every rate beside it.
Where did this number come from?
Committing for years
See the cost over as long as 10 years as the data grows, and what it would cost to get it all back out.
What will this cost us by year 5?
What you get
Your figure holds up when somebody checks it
Every charge, not the headline rate
Storage, writes, reads, retrieval, early deletion, minimum object size, and what it costs to get your data out again. The charges that decide the answer are the ones price pages bury.
Storage
Writes
Reads
Retrieval
Early deletion
Minimum object size
Data out
A source beside every figure
Each rate is traced to the provider’s own published price for that region, and every result says how old those prices are. You can check our working, and so can the person questioning it.
The provider’s published price
Its region
How old it is
Nothing rounded away
Where a charge cannot be priced, the option is marked partial and says what is missing. A gap is never shown as zero, because a missing figure that looks like nothing makes an option look cheaper than it is.
PartialSays what is missing
The consequences, not just the cost
Every option carries the characteristics, warnings, and notes its provider publishes. They never change where an option ranks on price, and price never hides them.
Characteristics
Warnings
Notes
A source for each
How it works
3 steps to an answer you can defend
How much dataHow it is read and writtenHow long it is kept
Describe the workload
How much data, how it is read and written, how long it is kept, and what happens to it at the end.
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
IBM Cloud
Cloudflare R2
Backblaze B2
Wasabi
OVHcloud
Pick who to compare
All 9 providers, or the shortlist you have been told to justify, across the regions you can actually deploy in.
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10
Read the verdict
Costs over 1, 3, 5, 7, or 10 years and the drivers behind each, with the source of every rate, to show whoever asks.
Beyond the comparison
The questions that come after “which is cheapest?”
Every plan prices every provider. Standard and Premium answer what you are asked next.
LowAs givenHigh
Premium
Low to high ranges
“What if we grow faster, or read more back, than we planned?”
The cost if growth, data read back, and data sent out run lower or higher than you expect, with the inputs that move it most named. A range to plan within, not a forecast.
Total over the horizonLeavingBeside it, never in it
Premium
Exit and recovery costs
“What would it cost to restore it all, or to leave?”
A restore after an incident, or moving everything out, priced as a figure of its own beside each option’s total. It never changes the ranking.
List priceWith your discount
Premium
Your own discounts beside list price
“Does the rate we negotiated change the answer?”
Enter what you have agreed with a provider, across every charge or for 1 kind of charge, and see what you would pay beside list price, always labelled as yours.
Meets what you need
Meets what you need
Left out, its source named
Standard
Requirements a comparison is held to
“Will the cheapest actually do what we need?”
Say what the storage must do, and every option whose provider says it cannot is left out and named, with its source.
Version 1Version 2Version 3 · today
Standard
Saved versions and history
“What did we assume when we decided?”
Change a use case and every earlier version is kept, to open again when prices move or plans change.
Premium
Executive brief
“Can whoever signs it off see the decision at a glance?”
The decision in brief: the finding, what the cheapest costs by the year and by the month, the options set against each other, and what to check before committing.
Detailed input, on Premium
Versioning, request counts, growth by objects and churn, transfer between regions, and how long data goes untouched, so the figure is of your workload as it really runs.
The questions to put to a provider before you sign, on security, privacy, where your data sits, the terms, and leaving, with the frameworks and law to be aware of.
CloudVerdict takes no payment, commission, or referral fee from any cloud provider or reseller. The only money we collect is your subscription, and the ranking answers to the numbers alone. If the cheapest option is the one you were hoping to avoid, that is what you will be shown.
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Premium
Go deeper on the figures behind a decision.
£490.00a month
Or £4,900.00 a year. Both exclude tax.
30new use cases a month, changed and priced again as often as you like
Everything in Standard, and
Detailed inputVersioning, request counts, growth by objects and churn, transfer between regions, monitoring and inventory, and how long data goes untouched