


For the purposes of this report, Enterprise Storage Forum evaluated five of the most popular providers of cloud storage for business: Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud. This pricing guide examines enterprise cloud storage pricing for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) object storage. In the market for cloud storage? See our list of the best cloud backup for business. For example, the data center, resiliency level, volume of stored data, eligibility for free tiers, frequency of data access, data transfer fees, data access fees and support subscriptions can all affect the total cloud storage cost. Most of the leading vendors offer a wide array of different cloud storage services, and the price for each of those services might be affected by any number of different factors. And doing a side-by-side comparison of the leading vendors’ prices to determine the cheapest cloud storage is even more complicated. Estimating cloud storage pricing can be extraordinarily complex.
