Application cloud storage , December 2024 review

Overview

Application cloud storage encompasses a wide array of technologies designed to accommodate everything thing from business intelligence databases, mobile apps, big data analysis to run-of-the-mill disk drives for generic application storage.

Are you looking for a turn-key cloud storage solution for your application that doesn't 'break the bank' in the process ? Do you know what 99.9%, 99.999% or 99.99999% cloud storage availability is and for what applications do these percentages even matter ? Are you looking for the best cloud storage IOPS (Input/output operations per second) per dollar ? No matter your requirements, we've got you covered with an extensive analysis of the leading application cloud storage providers and their offerings.

Up next, the leading application cloud storage services are grouped into various segments to make your selection process easier. If you want to make a more data-driven decision on your own, toward the end there's a grid with all the application cloud storage options and their features, which is used to create the following application cloud storage segments.

Application cloud storage feature table

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Provider.Plan Categories vCPU RAM Server type CPU Credits Dedicated bandwidth to disk drives (EBS) Local storage
Provider.Plan Categories vCPU RAM Server type CPU Credits Dedicated bandwidth to disk drives (EBS) Local storage
Amazon T2.nano server (EC2) 2 6 paid 1 vCPU[1]  0.5 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  3 CPU Credits / hour[1] [2]  No[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon T2.micro server (EC2) Free-tier 1 6 free 1 vCPU[1]  1 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  6 CPU Credits / hour[1] [2]  No[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon T2.micro server (EC2) 2 6 paid 1 vCPU[1]  1 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  6 CPU Credits / hour[1] [2]  No[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon T2.small server (EC2) 2 6 paid 1 vCPU[1]  2 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  12 CPU Credits / hour[1] [2]  No[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon T2.medium server (EC2) 2 6 paid 2 vCPU[1]  4 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  24 CPU Credits / hour[1] [2]  No[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon T2.large server (EC2) 2 6 paid 2 vCPU[1]  8 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  36 CPU Credits / hour[1] [2]  No[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon T2.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  16 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  54 CPU Credits / hour[1] [2]  No[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon T2.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  32 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  81 CPU Credits / hour[1] [2]  No[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon M4.large server (EC2) 2 6 paid 2 vCPU[1]  8 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  450 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon M4.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  16 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  750 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon M4.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  32 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon M4.4xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 16 vCPU[1]  64 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  2000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon M4.10xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 40 vCPU[1]  160 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  4000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon M4.16xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 64 vCPU[1]  256 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  10000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon M3.medium server (EC2) 2 6 paid 1 vCPU[1]  3.75 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  No[1]  One 4 GB SSD disk* [1] [2] 
Amazon M3.large server (EC2) 2 6 paid 2 vCPU[1]  7.5 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  No[1]  One 32 GB SSD disk* [1] [2] 
Amazon M3.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  15 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  500 Mbps (Purchased separately)[1]  Two 40 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon M3.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  30 GiB[1]  General Purpose[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1000 Mbps (Purchased separately)[1]  Two 80 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon C4.large server (EC2) 2 6 paid 2 vCPU[1]  3.75 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  500 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon C4.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  7.5 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  750 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon C4.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  15 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon C4.4xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 16 vCPU[1]  30 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  2000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon C4.8xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 36 vCPU[1]  60 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  4000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon C3.large server (EC2) 2 6 paid 2 vCPU[1]  3.75 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  No[1]  Two 16 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon C3.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  7.5 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  500 Mbps (Purchased separately)[1]  Two 40 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon C3.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  15 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1000 Mbps (Purchased separately)[1]  Two 80 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon C3.4xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 16 vCPU[1]  30 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  2000 Mbps (Purchased separately)[1]  Two 160 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon C3.8xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 32 vCPU[1]  60 GiB[1]  Compute Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  No[1]  Two 320 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon R3.large server (EC2) 2 6 paid 2 vCPU[1]  15.25 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  No[1]  One 32 GB SSD disk* [1] [2] 
Amazon R3.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  30.5 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  500 Mbps (Purchased separately)[1]  One 80 GB SSD disk* [1] [2] 
Amazon R3.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  61 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1000 Mbps (Purchased separately)[1]  One 160 GB SSD disk* [1] [2] 
Amazon R3.4xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 16 vCPU[1]  122 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  2000 Mbps (Purchased separately)[1]  One 320 GB SSD disk* [1] [2] 
Amazon R3.8xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 32 vCPU[1]  244 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  No[1]  Two 320 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon X1.16xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 64 vCPU[1]  976 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  5000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  One 1920 GB SSD disk* [1] [2] 
Amazon X1.32xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 128 vCPU[1]  1952 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  10000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  Two 1920 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon G2.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  15 GiB[1]  Accelerated Compute Optimized (GPU/FPGA)[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1000 Mbps (Purchased separately)[1]  One 60 GB SSD disk* [1] [2] 
Amazon G2.8xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 32 vCPU[1]  60 GiB[1]  Accelerated Compute Optimized (GPU/FPGA)[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  No[1]  Two 120 GB SSD disks* [1] [2] 
Amazon P2.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  61 GiB[1]  Accelerated Compute Optimized (GPU/FPGA)[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  750 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon P2.8xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 32 vCPU[1]  488 GiB[1]  Accelerated Compute Optimized (GPU/FPGA)[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  5000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon P2.16xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 64 vCPU[1]  732 GiB[1]  Accelerated Compute Optimized (GPU/FPGA)[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  10000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon I3.large server (EC2) 2 6 paid 2 vCPU[1]  15.25 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  425 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  One 475 GB NVMe SSD disk* † [1] [2] 
Amazon I3.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  30.5 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  850 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  One 950 GB NVMe SSD disk* † [1] [2] 
Amazon I3.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  61 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1700 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  One 1900 GB NVMe SSD disk* † [1] [2] 
Amazon I3.4xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 16 vCPU[1]  122 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  3500 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  Two 1900 GB NVMe SSD disks* † [1] [2] 
Amazon I3.8xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 32 vCPU[1]  244 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  7000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  Four 1900 GB NVMe SSD disks* † [1] [2] 
Amazon I3.16xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 64 vCPU[1]  488 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  14000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  Eight 1900 GB NVMe SSD disks* † [1] [2] 
Amazon D2.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  30.5 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  750 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  Three 2000 GB HDD disks* [1] 
Amazon D2.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  61 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  Six 2000 GB HDD disks* [1] 
Amazon D2.4xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 16 vCPU[1]  122 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  2000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  Twelve 2000 GB HDD disks* [1] 
Amazon D2.8xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 36 vCPU[1]  244 GiB[1]  Storage Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  4000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  Twenty-four 2000 GB HDD disks* [1] 
Amazon R4.large server (EC2) 2 6 paid 2 vCPU[1]  15.25 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  400 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon R4.xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 4 vCPU[1]  30.5 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  800 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon R4.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  61 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1600 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon R4.4xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 16 vCPU[1]  122 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  3000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon R4.8xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 32 vCPU[1]  244 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  6000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon R4.16xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 64 vCPU[1]  488 GiB[1]  Memory Optimized[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  12000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  No* [1] 
Amazon F1.2xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 8 vCPU[1]  122 GiB[1]  Accelerated Compute Optimized (GPU/FPGA)[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  1700 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  One 470 GB NVMe SSD disk* † [1] [2] 
Amazon F1.16xlarge server (EC2) 2 6 paid 64 vCPU[1]  976 GiB[1]  Accelerated Compute Optimized (GPU/FPGA)[1]  N/A* † [1] [2]  14000 Mbps (Included in price of server)[1]  Four 940 GB NVMe SSD disks* † [1] [2]