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Persistent Volume Storage

Durable block volumes that attach to your instances, on gp1 SSD from 0,0700 € per GiB-month. Snapshot any volume and create new volumes from it.

  • Survives stops and host failures
  • Point-in-time snapshots
  • Resize in place
Volume classes€ / GiB · month
Volume classes
gp1General Purpose · SSD, the default class0,0700 €
io1I/O Intensive · SSD0,1050 €Not on sale
st1Throughput Optimized · HDD0,0420 €Not on sale
SnapshotsPoint-in-time copies of a volume0,0333 €
From the public price list · EUR excl. VAT

Features

Volumes that outlive the instance.

  1. Durable by design

    A volume keeps its data in durable storage, not on the machine that runs your instance, so it survives instance stops and host failures.

  2. Storage classes

    General Purpose (gp1, SSD) is the class on sale and the default. Throughput Optimized (st1) and I/O Intensive (io1) are listed, but not on sale yet.

  3. Scalable capacity

    Grow a volume in place as your data grows, with one API call or CLI command.

Use cases

Where teams use it.

  • Databases

    Postgres or MySQL data on a gp1 volume that outlives the instance it is attached to.

  • Bring your disks

    Import an existing disk image, such as a qcow2, from an HTTP(S) URL as a new volume.

  • Backup and recovery

    Snapshot a volume and create a new volume from it when you need it. Protect the snapshot first, and it can back an image too.

Open beta

Volume Storage is live today, in open beta.

The Storage docs cover volumes, snapshots and storage classes, with GraphQL API and CLI examples, readable without an account.