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Controlling Costs of Cloud Backup Services

Cloud backup services can provide several valuable cost-efficiencies for backup and storage of enterprise data, but if you move forward with a solution before doing your due diligence, you could be met with a slew of unexpected costs. Many cloud backup vendors have confusing and complicated pricing models that make it difficult to predict the total cost of ownership (TCO) on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis, and hidden costs can cause your cloud backup bills to fluctuate wildly. While it’s best to choose a backup solution with transparent pricing and an easy-to-understand cost model, it’s important to understand what those unpredictable costs generally are. Here are the three biggest contributors to cloud backup cost fluctuations.


Exemples de coûts cachés et variables liés à la sauvegarde dans le cloud

Frais de sortie

The majority of cloud providers will allow their users to place data into the cloud without any fees. However, this does not apply when their data is retrieved from the cloud. Cloud providers typically charge what’s known as egress fees any time data is retrieved.

If your enterprise is constantly pulling its data out of the cloud—such as migrating or recovering data— you can see how the fees can add up quickly and lead to inflated costs that are nearly impossible to predict. Egress fees are considered a hidden fee since they fluctuate based on usage and are tied to a common action (data retrieval).

Licences

There may be a variety of licenses that are required, each with their own fee. These can snowball when cloud backup vendors require licenses for each of the data sources you back up or multiple licenses per user—something you may not realize until the bill comes.

Instantanés et coûts de stockage

It is common for enterprises to create long-term storage for their production data if they need to recover it after an attack—such as ransomware. This could involve creating massive amounts of snapshots for each account in high-tier storage. Furthermore, each time a block or file is changed, a new snapshot is automatically created. These snapshots are replicated across accounts, effectively doubling backup storage costs that continue to pile up over time. Costs are further compounded when considering industry retention requirements that go beyond 35 days.

Adding to all the complexity is the fact that it’s difficult to gauge just how many of the backup snapshots in your AWS accounts are even needed. Sure, your bill can display how much you are spending in a particular region, but it doesn’t show the level of granularity regarding the age of the snapshots or assets they are associated with.

Achieve Predictable Costs and Lower TCO with the Industry’s Leading Cloud-Native Backup Solution

You can avoid excessive cloud spending and gain control over backup costs by choosing a cloud backup solution with a simple, straightforward pricing model that clearly spells out the ongoing charges.

Built natively in AWS, Clumio’s backup solution offers the scalability, performance, data protection, and faster access to innovation made possible by the cloud while avoiding the hidden costs, complexity, and limited flexibility of snapshot-based backup solutions.

Tarification simplifiée

Clumio’s Pay-As-You-Go consumption model with rollover credits provides enterprises with a simplified and clear backup-as-a-service solution that ensures cost predictability while lowering TCO:

  • Transparency – No hidden costs, no license fees, and no egress charges—plus full visibility into data consumption.
  • No Friction – Choose from on-demand or commitment contracts with no setup required.
  • 100% SaaS – No complex cloud infrastructure or software to install or manage.
  • Un outil d’analyse des coûts intégré qui fournit des informations permettant de réduire les dépenses inutiles liées au cloud

Réduction des dépenses liées au stockage

Plutôt que de conserver les instantanés Amazon EBS, Clumio réduit encore davantage les dépenses en stockant les données dans un format compressé et dédupliqué sur Amazon S3, ce qui permet de réduire considérablement le coût de la conservation à long terme des données EBS. Les entreprises peuvent ainsi se conformer aux exigences réglementaires et élaborer des stratégies de conservation fondées sur leurs besoins métier et les exigences réglementaires, plutôt que sur les coûts.

Premiers pas avec Clumio

Clumio ne se limite pas à vous faire réaliser des économies. En moins de 15 minutes, votre entreprise peut :

  • Sauvegardez instantanément les données AWS de l’ensemble de votre entreprise grâce à Clumio
  • Bénéficiez d’une protection des données contre les attaques par ransomware et autres menaces malveillantes grâce au stockage « air-gapped » avec Clumio
  • Répondez à des objectifs variés et complexes en matière de conformité des données grâce aux politiques globales de Clumio
  • Réduisez le RTO (temps de reprise cible) et garantissez la continuité des activités en cas d’indisponibilité grâce à Clumio

Experience firsthand why Clumio is the industry’s leading innovator for AWS cloud backup. Start your free trial, all without any pre-planning or the need to install new infrastructure or software.

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