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Describe the workload

Enough to price it across every provider you choose. Most figures can be left blank: each says what it assumes, and the result marks it Assumed.

The workload

What this workload is, in your words. It appears on the result and on any export.

Unit of starting capacity

What is stored on day 1, from the current bill or console. Left blank, 500 TiB is assumed.

How much the stored data grows month on month: 0 if it does not grow, below 0 if it shrinks. Type a figure the slider does not reach. Left blank, 0% is assumed.

Objects described by

Whichever you know. The other is worked out from the capacity, and said under the figure you give.

Unit of average object size

A typical file, not the largest. Small objects cost more per byte: every provider charges per request. Left blank, 4 MiB is assumed.

Needed once objects are described by how many there are. From the bucket's metrics or an inventory report.

How it is used, and how long it is kept

All of it about every 200 months.

The share of stored data read in a month. Archive classes charge to retrieve, so this often decides between them. Left blank, 5% is assumed.

0.5% of what is stored leaves each month.

Never more than the share read back, because data is read before it is sent. Left blank, 1% is assumed.

Retention

Data kept for less than a class's minimum duration is still charged for that minimum.

Needed once data is deleted after a number of days: how long each object is kept before it is deleted.

Assumed: 0

How long an object cannot be deleted, and never longer than data is kept. 0 where object lock is not used. Left blank, 0 days is assumed.

Assumed: 1

Independent copies of the whole dataset. 1 unless a second is kept for recovery. Left blank, 1 is assumed.

Detailed input

Optional. Each part you add puts a figure of your own in place of 1 worked out or left out, so the comparison comes closer to your bill. Add any, in any order.

Premium

Detailed input is part of Premium. Nothing here is needed to price a comparison. You can change your plan from Your account.

Versioning

Earlier versions of objects that versioning keeps.Sharpens storage

Left blank: no earlier versions priced

What stored data is multiplied by to count earlier versions. Left blank, none are priced.

Requests each month

Counts from a bill or a console, in place of the ones worked out.Sharpens requests

Requests that upload data. Left blank, worked out from your objects.

Requests that read an object. Left blank, 1 for each object read.

Requests that list what a bucket holds. Left blank, none are priced.

Requests that delete an object. Free on some providers.

Requests that copy an object within its class. Left blank, none are priced.

Parts uploaded in multipart uploads. Left blank with no write count, worked out from object size where the provider charges for parts.

Objects a lifecycle rule moves into each option’s class. Left blank, none are priced.

Growth and churn

Objects added and deleted each month, and data written again.Sharpens growth and early deletion

Whole objects written as new data each month. It takes the place of monthly growth.

Whole objects deleted each month, the oldest first.

Left blank: none churns

The share of data deleted and written again each month. Left blank, none churns.

Transfer between regions

Data sent to another region of the same provider each month.Adds transfer between regions

Left blank: none is sent

The share of data sent to another region of the same provider. Left blank, none is sent.

Monitoring and inventory

An inventory of every object, and analytics of what is stored.Adds monitoring charges
Inventory of every object

How often your provider lists every object you hold into a report.

Storage analytics

Whether your provider’s paid analytics of what you store are on.

How long data goes untouched

How much of your data has gone 30 days, and 90, without being read or written.Prices self-tiering options

Left blank: those options are not ranked

The share of your data not read or written for 30 days or more.

Left blank: taken as none

The share not touched for 90 days or more: part of the share above.

Exit and recovery events

What it would cost to restore data after an incident, or to leave a provider.Adds a recovery and an exit cost

A recovery

How much data you would read back in 1 go, as a volume or a share.

Left blank: not priced

Restore speed

How fast the recovery is, on an option that must restore data first.

Leaving a provider

How much data you would take out of the provider in 1 go, as a volume or a share.

Left blank: not priced

Your own discounts

A discount you have agreed with a provider, shown beside its list price.Shows your price beside list

Give what a provider takes off every charge. Where you have agreed a different figure for 1 kind of charge, give it under the provider, and it takes the place of the first for that kind.

AWS

Left blank: list price

A different figure for 1 kind of charge

Azure

Left blank: list price

A different figure for 1 kind of charge

Google Cloud

Left blank: list price

A different figure for 1 kind of charge

Oracle

Left blank: list price

A different figure for 1 kind of charge

IBM

Left blank: list price

A different figure for 1 kind of charge

Cloudflare

Left blank: list price

A different figure for 1 kind of charge

Backblaze

Left blank: list price

A different figure for 1 kind of charge

Wasabi

Left blank: list price

A different figure for 1 kind of charge

OVHcloud

Left blank: list price

A different figure for 1 kind of charge

Low to high range

What each option costs if growth, reads, and data sent out run lower or higher.Adds a low to high range
Range

Each option then shows its total from a low case to a high case, and which of the 3 figures moves it most. Give a low and a high where you know them. A figure left blank is taken 25% below or above the figure you gave, and the result marks it Assumed.

Growth each month
Read back each month
Sent to the internet each month

What to compare

Providers and regions

Choose at least 1 provider, and 1 or more regions for each: up to 10 regions in all, across every provider. Each provider lists the regions CloudVerdict holds prices for. Choosing fewer than every provider is an ordinary use of the product, and the result says which it covers.

4 of 10 regions chosen.

  • 1 region, all 9 storage classes

    Regions for AWS
    • Europe (London) eu-west-2
    Storage classes for AWS

    Every class AWS sells in a region is compared. Turn 1 off to leave it out.

    What each is, in the storage guide

  • 1 region, all 6 storage classes

    Regions for Microsoft Azure
    • UK West, Cardiff ukwest
    Storage classes for Microsoft Azure

    Every class Azure sells in a region is compared. Turn 1 off to leave it out.

    What each is, in the storage guide

  • 1 region, all 7 storage classes

    Regions for Google Cloud
    • London europe-west2
    Storage classes for Google Cloud

    Every class Google sells in a region is compared. Turn 1 off to leave it out.

    What each is, in the storage guide

  • No prices in use

  • No prices in use

  • No prices in use

  • No prices in use

  • 1 region, all 2 storage classes

    Regions for Wasabi
    • EU West 1 (United Kingdom) eu-west-1
    Storage classes for Wasabi

    Every class Wasabi sells in a region is compared. Turn 1 off to leave it out.

    What each is, in the storage guide

  • No prices in use

Comparison currency

A provider with a price list in the currency chosen is priced from it, as OVHcloud is for its regions outside the US. Every other price, an OVHcloud US region's included, is published in US dollars and converted at the European Central Bank's latest reference rates, and the result states the rate and its date.

Decision horizon

How far ahead to total the cost. 3 years is the usual choice. Beyond 5, a total holds today’s rates flat for longer than any provider has held its rates, and the result says so.

Requirements

Optional. An option whose provider says it does not meet 1 you turn on is left out of the ranking and named, with the page that says so. An option whose provider publishes nothing on the point is kept and marked.

When Azure warns about reads

Microsoft describes cool, cold, and archive by how often their data is read and publishes no frequency, so a result warns when all of the data is read more often than the frequency below. Blank keeps CloudVerdict’s, and the result states which is in force.

A whole number from 1 to 120. Left blank, once every month, CloudVerdict's default.

A whole number from 1 to 120. Left blank, once every 3 months, CloudVerdict's default.

A whole number from 1 to 120. Left blank, once every 6 months, CloudVerdict's default.

When Oracle warns about reads

Oracle describes Infrequent Access and Archive by how seldom their data is read and publishes no frequency, so a result warns when all of the data is read more often than the frequency below. Blank keeps CloudVerdict’s, and the result states which is in force.

A whole number from 1 to 120. Left blank, once every month, CloudVerdict's default.

A whole number from 1 to 120. Left blank, once every 3 months, CloudVerdict's default.

This version

Optional. A name to find it by in the list of versions, such as the meeting it was for. It is kept with the version and cannot be changed.

Counts once against this month’s allowance, however many regions it compares.