OVHcloud File Storage evaluation - Cost estimation #2
Go back to listThis section evaluates the cost efficiency of a large-scale, high-intensity file storage workload, offering a detailed comparison of total cost of ownership (TCO) for the following high-demand configuration:
- 5TB of storage*
- 128TB read
- 1TB write
- 30,000 provisionned IOPS
- 1 provisionned GB/sec
This scenario is tailored to mission-critical, data-heavy applications, such as large-scale analytics, AI/ML training, or high-frequency transactional workloads. The analysis will reveal how each provider’s pricing and performance capabilities scale to meet these rigorous demands, providing clarity on cost-effectiveness at the upper limits of cloud file storage.
| Provider |  OVHcloud |
 AWS |
 Azure |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service | File Storage | EFS | Files | Filestore | |||
| Class | Standard (1AZ) | Elastic One-Zone | Elastic Multi-AZ | Premium LRS | Premium ZRS | Zonal | Regional |
| Region | SBG | eu-west-3 | West Europe | europe-west9 | |||
| Storage | 770 | 880 | 1650 | 715 | 894 | 1400 | 2 500 |
| Read fees | / | 3932 | / | / | |||
| Write fees | / | 71.68 | / | / | |||
| Provisionned IOPS | / | / | 1044 | 1301 | / | ||
| Provisionned bandwidth | / | / | 50.67 | 63.81 | / | ||
| Total | 770 | 4883 | 5653 | 1 809 | 2 259 | 1400 | 2500 |