Object storage fee and pricing model
Balance
To pay for object storage resources, depending on the type of balance in the account, the following is used single balance or storage and CDN balance. Money is deducted from the balance every hour according to the payment model.
You can pay for resources in a number of ways types of funds: basic funds, bonuses or VC bonuses.
Before using the storage facility top up.
Payment Model
Object storage is paid for on a pay-as-you-go model — pay-per consumed resources is written off every hour.
As long as there are uploaded objects in the storage, it is charged — to stop charging, delete all data.
Blocking of resources if there is not enough money on the balance
If there is not enough money in the balance to pay for the consumed resources for the previous hour, the operation of the object storage is suspended:
- access to data (read, change) is blocked;
- data storage continues to be billed.
The data will be stored for 30 calendar days. If the money is not received, all data will be deleted without possibility of recovery.
To always have enough money on your balance, you can set up balance notices and autoreplenishment.
Prices
Resource prices can be viewed at selectel.ru.
You can calculate the approximate cost of using object storage in resource calculator.
The cost is affected by storage class and resource consumption:
- number of requests to the API;
- outgoing traffic volume (GB);
- storage capacity (MB/hr).
Storage classes
The storage class affects the price of each resource:
- cold storage — suitable for storing rarely used data. Low price for storage, but expensive API requests and outbound traffic. Resource prices are fixed for any consumption volume;
- standard storage — suitable for storing and distributing frequently used data. High price for storage, but cheap API requests and outgoing traffic. Resource prices depend on the volume of consumption (except for prices for API requests).
Technically and in terms of speed, the classes are the same.
Number of requests to API
Requests to the API are sent for any data operations.
GET, HEAD, PUT, POST, COPY requests are charged.
DELETE requests and requests to which HTTP response with codes 403, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504 is returned are not charged.
Outgoing traffic volume
Traffic from storage to the Internet (viewing and downloading objects) is charged.
Traffic within Selectel and incoming traffic is not charged.
Storage capacity
Every hour the balance is deducted for the current amount of storage. When using segmented loading object segments and the manifest file are charged. You can view the current amount of data in the storage in the control panels section heading Object Storage → Containers.
When calculating consumption per day or month, the storage volume consumed for each hour (MB/hour) is summarized. If the storage volume has been changed, for standard storage, the charge for the hours after the change will correspond to the new volume.
Empty containers also take up storage space (4KB) and are charged.
View Consumption
You can view the consumption of resources in control panels under Object Storage → Expenses. If the storage objects are distributed via CDN, see consumption in section CDN → Expenses.
The data is presented in the form of consumption and payment graphs. You can view consumption on the tab Consumed for all types of resources and sort the graphs by the required time interval.
To upload consumption and payment details in the format of .csv, press Download CSV and select how the rows will be grouped in the upload (by hours, days, weeks, months, years).
Reporting documents
After charging money for the use of object storage, you can report.