Evidence
The storage comparison you can check
A storage cost comparison is only as good as your ability to check it. Everything here is so that you can: the output itself, the rules behind it, how it is kept right, and what a saved verdict keeps.
Azure Archive LRS in uksouth is the cheapest, at $315,138.42 over 10 years.
See all 3 sample verdictsEvery price names its source
The provider’s own price list or pricing pages, and how old they were.
A missing charge is never zero
An option short of a charge is marked, and is not ranked.
Cost alone decides the order
A warning is shown beside an option, and never moves it.
A saved verdict does not change
It keeps its inputs, every charge it found, and what worked it out.
What you can check
6 pages, each 1 thing to test
- Sample verdictsSample workloads, each priced provider by provider: what the product found for each, and what the ranking leaves to whoever decides.
- How CloudVerdict works it outThe rules every comparison follows: what is priced, how it is counted, and what is never done to a figure.
- How we keep it rightHow prices are refreshed and dated, what happens when 1 moves, and how the rules are checked against the providers’ own pages.
- A verdict stays a verdictWhat a saved version keeps, and what happens to it when prices change afterwards.
- How to judge any storage cost comparison7 questions to ask of any tool, spreadsheet, or quotation that compares storage costs. Ours included.
- For procurement and security teamsWho operates CloudVerdict, what data it holds, how access and payment work, and where each kind of question goes.