{"id":76123,"date":"2017-08-08T07:55:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=76123"},"modified":"2021-12-22T20:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T04:21:52","slug":"cost-data-of-transfer-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/cost-data-of-transfer-cloud-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Your Data Into the Cloud Is Just the Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. March 9, 2018: Backblaze dropped the price of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage downloads from $0.02 to $0.01<\/a> per gigabyte. See our updated Backblaze B2 Cost Calculator<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. February 12, 2021: The Backblaze Fireball<\/a> has grown to hold 96TB of customer data, and with 10GigE network capability, it\u2019s even faster for migrating large data sets to Backblaze B2<\/a>. Please refer to our Fireball<\/a> page for up-to-date pricing information.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    Organizations should consider not just the cost of getting their data into the cloud, but also long-term costs for storage and retrieval when deciding which cloud storage solution meets their needs.<\/p>\n

    As cloud storage has become ubiquitous, organizations large and small are joining in. For larger organizations, the lure of reducing capital expenses and their associated operational costs is enticing. For smaller organizations, cloud storage often replaces an unmanageable closet full of external hard drives, thumb drives, SD cards, and other devices. With terabytes or even petabytes<\/a> of data, the common challenge facing organizations, large and small, is how to get their data up to the cloud.<\/p>\n

    Transferring Data to the Cloud<\/h2>\n

    The obvious solution for getting your data to the cloud is to upload your data from your internal network through the internet to the cloud storage vendor you\u2019ve selected. Cloud storage vendors don\u2019t charge you for uploading your data to their cloud, but you, of course, have to pay your network provider and that\u2019s where things start to get interesting. Here are a few things to consider.<\/p>\n