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3 workloads, priced on 5 providers in 1 region of each, named beside its figure. Each shows what the product found, as it found it: the finding, the cheapest from each provider, and what the ranking leaves to whoever decides.

  • 3 workloads, each priced on 5 providers
  • What the product found for each, unedited
  • Priced by the product’s own calculation

  1. Sample 1 of 3

    Hot application storage

    When retrieval, requests, and data sent out outweigh the storage rate, and decide the cheapest option.

    The finding

    Wasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1 is the cheapest, at $25,647.39 over 3 years.

    • Wasabi$25,647.39$8.11 per TiB-month all in · storage $8.11, everything else $0.00
    • Cloudflare R2$60,654.90$19.17 per TiB-month all in · storage $16.49, everything else $2.68
    • Microsoft Azure$180,942.45$57.19 per TiB-month all in · storage $19.32, everything else $37.87
    • AWS$197,928.99$62.56 per TiB-month all in · storage $24.13, everything else $38.43
    • Google Cloud$200,019.67$63.22 per TiB-month all in · storage $23.90, everything else $39.33

    What the ranking does not settle. The cheapest option carries no warning. Storage is the largest part of its cost, 100%.

    Every warning and note, provider by provider

    WasabiWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1

    Cloudflare R2R2 Standard in weur

    AWSAWS S3 Standard in eu-west-2

    Google CloudGoogle Standard, region in europe-west2

    The workload that was priced
    Starting capacity
    50 TiB
    Growth
    3% a month
    Average object
    256 KiB
    Read back
    120% a month
    Sent to the internet
    40% a month
    Kept
    Indefinitely
    Object lock
    None
    Copies
    1
    Currency
    US dollars
    Decision horizon
    3 years
    Priced in
    AWS in eu-west-2, Azure in uksouth, Google in europe-west2, R2 in weur, and Wasabi in eu-west-1
    Held to
    Read without a restore
    Recovery event volume
    5 TiB
    Recovery event restore speed
    Expedited
    Low to high range
    Worked out

  2. Sample 2 of 3

    Backup with frequent change

    When a minimum storage duration, retained versions, and periodic restores change what a cheap class really costs.

    The finding

    Azure Cold LRS in uksouth is the cheapest, at $167,606.24 over 5 years.

    • Microsoft Azure$167,606.24$8.71 per TiB-month all in · storage $5.99, everything else $2.72
    • AWS$184,730.04$9.60 per TiB-month all in · storage $5.47, everything else $4.13
    • Wasabi$203,170.97$10.56 per TiB-month all in · storage $10.54, everything else $0.0197
    • Cloudflare R2$235,840.84$12.26 per TiB-month all in · storage $11.00, everything else $1.26
    • Google Cloud$388,099.61$20.17 per TiB-month all in · storage $17.56, everything else $2.61

    What the ranking does not settle. The cheapest option carries 2 warnings: “Held in a single datacentre in the primary region” and “Minimum retention of 90 days on data that churns”. Storage is the largest part of its cost, 69%.

    Every warning and note, provider by provider

    AWSAWS S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval in eu-west-2

    WasabiWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1

    Cloudflare R2R2 Infrequent Access in weur

    Google CloudGoogle Nearline, region in europe-west2

    The workload that was priced
    Starting capacity
    200 TiB
    Growth
    1.5% a month
    Average object
    4 MiB
    Read back
    2% a month
    Sent to the internet
    0% a month
    Kept
    90 days
    Object lock
    None
    Copies
    1
    Currency
    US dollars
    Decision horizon
    5 years
    Priced in
    AWS in eu-west-2, Azure in uksouth, Google in europe-west2, R2 in weur, and Wasabi in eu-west-1
    Versioning multiplier
    1.3× the current data, counting earlier versions of objects
    Monthly churn
    8% of capacity deleted and written again each month
    Recovery event volume
    20 TiB

  3. Sample 3 of 3

    Long-term archive

    When the lowest storage rate is not the whole answer: what a recovery and leaving would cost is shown beside each option, and how fast data comes back is for whoever decides.

    The finding

    Azure Archive LRS in uksouth is the cheapest, at $315,138.42 over 10 years.

    • Microsoft Azure$315,138.42$1,922.99 per PiB-month all in · storage $1,888.78, everything else $34.21
    • AWS$316,543.70$1,931.57 per PiB-month all in · storage $1,891.43, everything else $40.14
    • Google Cloud$447,147.92$2,728.52 per PiB-month all in · storage $2,659.67, everything else $68.85
    • Wasabi$1,360,375.13$8,301.08 per PiB-month all in · storage $8,301.08, everything else $0.00
    • Cloudflare R2$1,848,295.70$11,278.39 per PiB-month all in · storage $11,259.00, everything else $19.39

    What the ranking does not settle. The cheapest option carries 2 warnings: “Data must be rehydrated before it can be read” and “Held in a single datacentre in the primary region”. Storage is the largest part of its cost, 98%.

    Every warning and note, provider by provider

    Microsoft AzureAzure Archive LRS in uksouth

    Google CloudGoogle Archive, region in europe-west2

    WasabiWasabi Pay as you go in eu-west-1

    Cloudflare R2R2 Infrequent Access in weur

    The workload that was priced
    Starting capacity
    1,024 TiB
    Growth
    0.5% a month
    Average object
    64 MiB
    Read back
    0.1% a month
    Sent to the internet
    0% a month
    Kept
    2,555 days
    Object lock
    2,555 days
    Copies
    1
    Currency
    US dollars
    Decision horizon
    10 years
    Priced in
    AWS in eu-west-2, Azure in uksouth, Google in europe-west2, R2 in weur, and Wasabi in eu-west-1
    Recovery event volume
    50 TiB
    Exit event share of capacity
    100% of the capacity held at the horizon

Looking at 2 providers? See each pair compared on these 3 workloads

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On Standard and Premium, any version of a use case of your own can be taken away as a PDF report, and on Premium as an executive brief too. The samples above are illustrations: priced at each provider’s current published list prices, for the workloads they state, and not a quotation for yours.

  • An executive summary

    What was priced, the finding, the cheapest from each provider, what the ranking leaves to whoever decides, and what to check before anything is committed.

  • The comparison

    The cheapest option from each provider opened up, every option ranked, those that could not be priced in full, and 3 charts: the totals, what each is made of, and cost over time.

  • The appendices

    Every warning and note on every option, each with its source where it rests on a provider’s page, which price list each provider’s prices came from, and every assumption with its source.

  • An executive brief, on Premium

    The decision in brief for whoever signs off the cost: the finding, what the cheapest costs by the year and by the month, the options set against each other, and what to check.