Service pricing
Because R‑Cloud utilizes the cloud environment for its service needs, when you enable data protection, you are charged for the backup service, data retention, and the resources that are required for the backup and recovery services.
The total data protection cost is the sum of the following costs:
Figure: Data protection cost
| Cost | Details |
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| Backup and data retention | Cost of backing up data and data retention. For details, see Backup and data retention pricing. |
| Backup data storage |
Cost of storing backup data. The following factors are considered:
If you use a target for storing data, the following is also considered:
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| Temporary resources |
Cost of temporary resources that R‑Cloud creates in the cloud when performing the following tasks:
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An R‑Cloud subscription includes a 14-day free trial period. During this time, R‑Cloud does not charge you for the backup and data retention cost. The cost of backup data storage and temporary resources is charged by your cloud provider as usual.
Backup and data retention pricing
The R‑Cloud backup and data retention pricing model provides you with the simplicity and transparency of consumption-based pricing. At the end of your 14-day free trial period, you are billed according to the subscription plan that you select when subscribing to R‑Cloud. For details on the subscription plans, see R‑Cloud subscription plans.
Pricing for data protection is based on the following (within a monthly billing cycle):
- Capacity of all disks belonging to protected applications and instances
- Size of protected buckets
- Pricing tiers to which protected instances and buckets belong
A pricing tier to which a protected application, instance, or bucket belongs is determined when you assign a policy to the application, the instance, or the bucket. R‑Cloud automatically associates the application, the instance, or the bucket with one of the pricing tiers based on the value of the Backup every option in the policy that defines how frequently data is backed up. For details on policies, see Defining your backup strategy.
Depending on how frequently your data is backed up, each protected application, instance, or bucket belongs to one of the following pricing tiers:
| Pricing tier | Data backup frequency (in hours) |
|---|---|
| platinum | 1–3 hours |
| gold | 4–11 hours |
| silver | 12–23 hours |
| bronze | 24 hours or more |
Considerations
- If an application, an instance, or a bucket is deleted from the cloud, but it still has at least one valid restore point available, it is considered protected (its status is Protected deleted) and R‑Cloud automatically associates such an entity with the bronze pricing tier. In the case of instances, it charges you for protecting only the included disks.
- If you unassign a policy from an application, an instance, or a bucket that still has at least one valid restore point available, such an entity is considered protected and R‑Cloud automatically associates it with the bronze pricing tier. In the case of instances, it charges you for protecting only the included disks.
- Applicable for instances and applications running on them. If you assign policies to an instance and an application running on the same instance, keep in mind that you will be charged for both protecting the instance and protecting the application.
R‑Cloud subscription plans
R‑Cloud offers you the following subscription plans:
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Pay-as-you-go plan
Select this plan if you want to pay only for what you use for data protection each month.
Important If you plan to protect Azure data, the pay-as-you-go subscription plan is the only available option.
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Annual subscription plans
You can choose among different annual subscription plans with token-based pricing.
For more information on pricing and subscription plans, see your cloud provider marketplace (AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace, or Google Cloud Marketplace), or contact your HYCU sales representative.