Yandex Cloud Backup pricing policy
To estimate your service costs, see the pricing in this section.
The prices for service products are also available in the price list.
Note
Currency of Service rates (prices) depends on the company you made a contract with:
- Prices in US dollars are applicable to customers of Iron Hive doo Beograd (Serbia) or Direct Cursus Technology L.L.C. (Dubai).
- Prices in Russian roubles are applicable to customers of Yandex.Cloud LLC.
All prices below do not include VAT.
What goes into the cost of using Cloud Backup
The cost of Cloud Backup depends on the number of backed up resource units, i.e., Yandex Compute Cloud VMs and Yandex BareMetal servers, and the total storage space used for backups.
Resource unit backup
In Cloud Backup, you start paying for a Compute Cloud instance or BareMetal server as soon as you link it to a backup policy. You continue to pay until you unlink the resource unit from the policy, whichever status it is in.
If you delete a VM in Yandex Compute Cloud using the management console, this will also unlink such a VM from all policies. If you delete a VM using the CLI, Terraform, or API, it will not be unlinked from the policies automatically, so you will have to do it yourself.
If you need to unlink a BareMetal server from a policy, you will still have to do it on your own.
The minimum billing unit is one backed up resource unit (VM or BareMetal server) per hour.
Using the storage
You are charged for the total size of storage used by backups.
The minimum billing unit is 1 hour of storing 1 MB of data.
In all calculations: 1 GB = 230 bytes, 1 MB = 220 bytes.
If a backed up resource unit is stopped or deleted, Cloud Backup continues to store its backups, and you continue to pay based on their size. Such backup size depends on the following:
- VM disk usage or BareMetal server disk usage.
- Amount of data changes during regular backups.
- Data compression option.
Note
To optimize your costs, consider removing the backups of the deleted VMs or the BareMetal servers you stopped renting.
It is equally likely that backups may be smaller in size than the resource unit's actual disk, e.g., if the disk has a lot of unused space and the data is well compressed, or exceed its size, e.g., when there are many backups and their data is constantly modified and poorly compressed.
Prices for the Russia region
Note
Yandex Cloud resources are priced differently in different regions. For more information about the available regions, see Regions.
Your payment currency is determined by your contracting legal entity. For more information on creating an account, see Registering an account in Yandex Cloud.
Cost calculation example
Let’s calculate the cost of Cloud Backup for one month for the following configuration:
- One VM is linked to backup policies.
- Total size of backups is 50 GB.
1 VM × $2.15 + 50 GB × $0.0378 = $4.04
Total: $4.04, cost of using Cloud Backup to back up one VM with a total of 50 GB of backups per month, without VAT.
Where:
- 1: Number of VMs linked to backup policies.
- $2.15: Price of connecting one VM to Cloud Backup per month, without VAT.
- 50 GB: Total size of backups.
- $0.0378: Price of storing 1 GB of backups per month, without VAT.