Nifty website claims to make comparing cloud costs simple. Good luck with that

CostStorage.com is a free public cloud cost calculator covering the Amazon, Azure, Google, IBM, BackBlaze and Oracle clouds and their US regions. It returns a single-dollar amount, taking into account storage needed, data transfer out, number of read and write requests, region, 'temperature' (hot, warm, cool, cold) and …

[Gnoitall]

Paraphrasing the Ever-Insightful Douglas Adams

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly [how cloud service is actually priced], it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable."

[TheVogon]

Re: Paraphrasing the Ever-Insightful Douglas Adams

Wake me up when it can automatically move my VMs to the cheapest one...

[CostStorage]

Re: Paraphrasing the Ever-Insightful Douglas Adams

currently we are only object storage. consider using a container (ie docker) to move across different provider ;-)

[TheVogon]

Re: Paraphrasing the Ever-Insightful Douglas Adams

"currently we are only object storage. consider using a container (ie docker) to move across different provider ;-)"

No need really to do that if the solution supports the main VM image standards ( at least Hyper-V and VMWare) or can convert them.

But yes, Docker as an option does support Hyper-V Containers - which gives you proper isolation between your apps and is portable.

[@YevP]

Yev from Backblaze here -> So, uh. Anyone figure out how to get Backblaze to show up on this list?

[Flakk]

Ouch. That's not right.

Did you speak with Finance? Did they cut the cheque to the "CostStorage Benevolence Fund" yet?

[CostStorage]

we don't have such a fund yet, but will gladly start one ;-)

[Anonymous Coward]

Properly snarky response delivered by a vendor on El Reg. Top of my list now.

[CostStorage]

hey @yev- looks like backblaze is in the mix - see screen shot @ http://imgur.com/a/S0lRw :)

[@YevP]

Yup! Looked like there was a glitch the first day or so, now we're showing up as anticipated. Might have been server load :P

[CostStorage]

we fixed the problem with backblaze not showing up in some queries- check now :)

[TechDave]

Seems pretty inaccurate. Just put in the rough data from our last months AWS bill and this tool came out 4 times higher than we actually pay.

[Ragarath]

I had a quick play too, it seems you can sum up their model.

If you do store a lot and don't take out super amount go AWS else go Azure.

[CostStorage]

@TechDave - would you mind sharing the input parameters you entered (number of gigs, etc) ?