Multi-Cloud Storage Cheat Sheet

Storage Comparison Filters

[
  {
    "category": "object",
    "services": [
      {
        "provider": "aws",
        "name": "Amazon S3",
        "description": "Scalable object storage with industry-leading durability, availability, performance, security, and virtually unlimited capacity.",
        "pricing": "~$0.023/GB/month (Standard); pay per request and data transfer",
        "durability": "99.999999999% (11 nines)",
        "availability": "99.99%"
      },
      {
        "provider": "azure",
        "name": "Azure Blob Storage",
        "description": "Massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning.",
        "pricing": "~$0.018/GB/month (Hot); access tiers: Hot, Cool, Cold, Archive",
        "durability": "99.999999999% (11 nines) LRS",
        "availability": "99.9% (Hot), 99% (Cool)"
      },
      {
        "provider": "gcp",
        "name": "Cloud Storage",
        "description": "Unified object storage for developers and enterprises with global edge caching, live data migration, and an integrated data management lifecycle.",
        "pricing": "~$0.020/GB/month (Standard); classes: Standard, Nearline, Coldline, Archive",
        "durability": "99.999999999% (11 nines)",
        "availability": "99.95% (Standard)"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "category": "block",
    "services": [
      {
        "provider": "aws",
        "name": "Amazon EBS",
        "description": "High-performance block-level storage designed for use with Amazon EC2 for both throughput- and transaction-intensive workloads.",
        "pricing": "gp3: ~$0.08/GB/month; io2: ~$0.125/GB/month + IOPS charges",
        "durability": "99.999%",
        "availability": "99.99%"
      },
      {
        "provider": "azure",
        "name": "Azure Managed Disks",
        "description": "Durable, high-performance block storage for Azure Virtual Machines with simplified management and built-in high availability.",
        "pricing": "Premium SSD v2: ~$0.000132/IOPS + storage; Standard SSD: ~$0.075/GB/month",
        "durability": "99.999%",
        "availability": "99.99%"
      },
      {
        "provider": "gcp",
        "name": "Persistent Disk",
        "description": "Reliable, high-performance block storage for Compute Engine VMs. Automatically encrypted at rest and available in regional and zonal options.",
        "pricing": "pd-ssd: ~$0.170/GB/month; pd-balanced: ~$0.100/GB/month; pd-standard: ~$0.040/GB/month",
        "durability": "99.999%",
        "availability": "99.99%"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "category": "file",
    "services": [
      {
        "provider": "aws",
        "name": "Amazon EFS",
        "description": "Serverless, fully elastic file storage that lets you share file data across AWS services and on-premises resources using the NFS protocol.",
        "pricing": "~$0.30/GB/month (Standard); ~$0.025/GB/month (EFS IA)",
        "durability": "99.999999999% (11 nines)",
        "availability": "99.99% (Standard)"
      },
      {
        "provider": "azure",
        "name": "Azure Files",
        "description": "Fully managed file shares in the cloud accessible via SMB, NFS, and REST protocols. Can replace or supplement on-premises file servers.",
        "pricing": "Premium: ~$0.16/GB/month (provisioned); Standard: ~$0.06/GB/month (Hot)",
        "durability": "99.999999999% (11 nines) LRS",
        "availability": "99.9% (Standard), 99.99% (Premium)"
      },
      {
        "provider": "gcp",
        "name": "Filestore",
        "description": "Fully managed NFS file server for applications that require a file system interface and a shared filesystem for data.",
        "pricing": "Basic HDD: ~$0.044/GB/month; Basic SSD: ~$0.176/GB/month; Enterprise: ~$0.30/GB/month",
        "durability": "99.999%",
        "availability": "99.99% (Enterprise)"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "category": "archive",
    "services": [
      {
        "provider": "aws",
        "name": "S3 Glacier",
        "description": "Low-cost archive storage classes in Amazon S3 for long-term data retention and digital preservation with retrieval options from minutes to hours.",
        "pricing": "Glacier Instant: ~$0.004/GB/month; Flexible: ~$0.0036/GB/month; Deep Archive: ~$0.00099/GB/month",
        "durability": "99.999999999% (11 nines)",
        "availability": "99.99% (after restore)"
      },
      {
        "provider": "azure",
        "name": "Azure Archive Storage",
        "description": "Ultra-low-cost storage tier for data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days with flexible latency requirements.",
        "pricing": "~$0.002/GB/month (Archive tier); rehydration charges apply",
        "durability": "99.999999999% (11 nines) LRS",
        "availability": "Offline (must rehydrate to Hot/Cool)"
      },
      {
        "provider": "gcp",
        "name": "Cloud Storage Archive",
        "description": "The lowest-cost storage class for long-lived, rarely accessed data with a 365-day minimum storage duration and millisecond access latency.",
        "pricing": "~$0.0012/GB/month; higher retrieval and operation costs",
        "durability": "99.999999999% (11 nines)",
        "availability": "99.0%"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "category": "database-storage",
    "services": [
      {
        "provider": "aws",
        "name": "Amazon FSx",
        "description": "Fully managed third-party file systems optimized for a variety of workloads. Includes FSx for Lustre, Windows File Server, NetApp ONTAP, and OpenZFS.",
        "pricing": "FSx for Lustre: ~$0.145/GB/month; FSx for ONTAP: ~$0.125/GB/month; FSx for Windows: ~$0.13/GB/month",
        "durability": "99.999999999% (11 nines, ONTAP)",
        "availability": "99.99% (Multi-AZ)"
      },
      {
        "provider": "azure",
        "name": "Azure NetApp Files",
        "description": "Enterprise-grade, high-performance file storage powered by NetApp technology. Supports NFS, SMB, and dual-protocol workloads.",
        "pricing": "Standard: ~$0.15/GB/month; Premium: ~$0.30/GB/month; Ultra: ~$0.45/GB/month",
        "durability": "99.99%",
        "availability": "99.99% (with availability zones)"
      },
      {
        "provider": "gcp",
        "name": "Filestore Enterprise",
        "description": "Regional, high-availability NFS file storage with enterprise-grade reliability, designed for business-critical applications on GCP.",
        "pricing": "Enterprise: ~$0.30/GB/month; scales with provisioned capacity",
        "durability": "99.99%",
        "availability": "99.99% (regional)"
      }
    ]
  }
]