We also throw in your first 10GB of storage for free when you open your account and 1GB of free downloads every day. For Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, this means that no matter how much data you have, the cost for Backblaze B2 is $0.005/GB per month for data storage and $0.01/GB to download data.

Our approach to pricing is to be transparent, straightforward, and predictable. The simple fact is: The majority of cloud storage providers make it hard to plan for the future by making it difficult to understand how much you’re storing and the details of what it’s costing you. Throw in the unpredictable economy we’re all trying to navigate during the COVID-19 pandemic, and making the right next step can feel next to impossible. If you still feel the price tag is too high I'm not going on in trying to convince you, but at least comparisons should include every parameter.Editor’s note: This post was updated from the original (published August 17, 2017) to reflect current pricing and information regarding current events.Ĭhoosing a cloud storage solution that fits your use case is challenging in the best business climate. And you should also count the downtime costs and compare how many minutes it takes to recover that file from VCC, or the entire backup set from a simple cloud storage.

Say you have a 1 TB backup file (and it's a easy scenario like the vbk full file, not an incremental), you need to pay additional 10,24 USD to restore a single file that maybe is 1k.

Since I work at Veeam I cannot suggest one provider over the other, but you can use the search tool and find them.Īlso, the comparison on price per GB only is incomplete, do you know Google Nearline has a Data retrieval cost of $0.01 per GB? And because there's no Veeam component running in the cloud, you need to download the entire backup to restore even a single file of the Guest OS. And trust me there are large providers offering Cloud Connect, and I've seen lower prices around even without committing upfront for size or duration. I'm not going to repeat again myself in saying that comparing a cheap plain storage solution with Cloud Connect is not correct, but at least let me note that you should use the same units to be fair, and say $0,12/GB.

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