Understanding How Storage Costs Impact Cloud TCO
ITProToday, Wednesday, June 7,2023
There is more that goes into your cloud bill than the base price. Take these steps to minimize your cloud storage costs.
One of the chief selling points of cloud storage is that it's cheap - at least on the surface. Cloud storage services like Amazon S3 have pricing tiers as low as $0.00099 per gigabyte per month. That translates to about $12 per year to host a thousand gigabytes of data.
That said, the per-gigabyte cost of cloud storage is only one of many variables that affects cloud TCO.