Table 2 Cloud storage cost elements
Definition | Azure | AWS | Google Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Storage cost | Cost for storing data. | Data storage | Storage | Data storage |
Charged as per GB per month. | ||||
Data replication cost | Cloud replication refers to the process of replicating data | Data replication | Replication | Operation charges |
from on-premises storage to | ||||
the cloud, or from one cloud instance to another. | ||||
It is charged on a per GB basis. | ||||
Transaction cost | Cost for requests made against | Operations & | Requests & | Operation charges, |
storage buckets and objects. | data transfer | data retriever | Retrieval fees | |
They are charged on the quantity of requests. DELETE and | ||||
CANCEL requests are free. | ||||
Types of requests include | ||||
PUT, COPY, POST, LISTS, GET, SELECT. | ||||
Data retrieval is charged on a | ||||
per GB basis. | ||||
Network usage cost | Cost of all bandwidth, into and | Data transfer | Data transfer | Network egress |
out of the cloud storage server. | ||||
It is also charged on a per GB basis. |