Table 1.
| Vendor | Storage Tier (see legend for abbreviations) | Cost per GB-Month (a) | Retrieval Time | Retrieval Cost per GB (b) | Cost per Test (6 GB Exome over 10 years) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy A | Strategy B | Strategy C | |||||
| AWS | S3 | 2.1–2.3 cents | Immediate | – | $12.39 | $3.29 (2 years S3 then 8 years Deep Glacier) | $0.88 (3 months S3 then 10 years Deep Glacier) |
| S3-IA | 1.25 cents | Immediate | 1.0 cents | $6.77 | |||
| Glacier | 0.4 cents | 3–5 h (typical); 1–5 min (expedited) | 0.25–3.0 cents | $2.17 | |||
| Deep Glacier | 0.099 cents | 12–48 h | 0.25–2.0 cents | $0.54 | |||
| GCP | Regional | 2.0–2.3 cents | Immediate | – | $10.83 | $5.57 (2 years Regional then 8 years Coldline) | $4.09 (3 months Regional then 10 years Coldline) |
| Nearline | 1.0 cents | Immediate | 1.0 cents | $5.41 | |||
| Coldline | 0.7 cents | Immediate | 2.0 cents | $3.79 | |||
| Archive (c) | 0.25 cents | Immediate | 5.0 cents | $1.35 | |||
| Azure | ZRS Hot | 2.12–2.3 cents | Immediate | – | $12.40 | $3.30 (2 years LRS Hot then 8 years LRS Archive) | $0.86 (3 months LRS Hot then 10 years LRS Archive) |
| ZRS Cool | 1.25 cents | Immediate | – | $6.77 | |||
| LRS Hot | 1.7–2.08 cents | Immediate | – | $9.92 | |||
| LRS Cool | 1.0–1.5 cents | Immediate | 1.0 cents | $5.41 | |||
| LRS Archive | 0.099–0.2 cents | <15 h | 2.0 cents | $0.54 | |||
Strategy A: 1000 exomes per year (6TB generated per year), stored for 10 years at indicated storage level.
Strategy B: 1000 exomes per year (6TB generated per year), stored for 2 years in “hot” storage and 8 years in “cold” storage.
Strategy C: 1000 exomes per year (6TB generated per year), stored for 3 months in “hot” storage and 10 years in “cold” storage.
(Simulating 20 years total, no re-access).
All prices, features and storage classes are current as of May 2020. An updated, online version of this table can be found at https://ngscosts.info.
Not all storage classes, features and costs from each vendor are represented. Displayed classes are meant to be representative of range available from each vendor.
Prices are subject to change.
Abbreviations; AWS: Amazon Web Serivces, GCP: Google Cloud Platform, S3: Simple Storage Service, S3-IA: S3 Infrequent Access, ZRS: Zone-redundant storage, LRS: Locally-redundant storage.
Notes: (a) Ranges indicate when prices may vary by region and/or total data stored(b) Data retrieved to locations outside of the vendors cloud or cross-region may incur network transfer costs.(c) GCP Archive does not come with a Service Level Agreement for availability.