Simple Pricing. Simplyblock.

Simplyblock offers several features that can dramatically reduce your storage costs compared to using high-performance storage solutions such as Amazon EBS volumes directly:

-Thin provisioning: Only pay for the storage you actually use, not what you provision.
-Storage tiering: Automatically move infrequently accessed data to cheaper storage tiers like Amazon S3.
-Pooling of EBS volumes: Consolidate partially used volumes into a shared pool, increasing utilization.
-Compression: Reduce the amount of physical storage needed.
-Deduplication: Eliminate redundant data across volumes.
-Multi-attach capability: Use a single volume for high-availability setups instead of replicating data.

By leveraging these capabilities, many customers see cost reductions of 75% or more compared to their previous Amazon EBS spend.

Thin provisioning in simplyblock allows you to create volumes of any size without immediately using all that space. You only pay for the storage you actually use, not what you allocate. This saves money and simplifies capacity planning. It also improves storage utilization across your infrastructure. You can grow your storage gradually as needed without manual intervention.

Yes, you can switch between simplyblock plans at any time. Your new plan and pricing will take effect at the start of the next billing cycle. Contact our sales team for assistance with plan changes.

Yes, we offer discounts for larger storage commitments and for annual or longer-term contracts. Please contact our sales team to discuss volume pricing and annual discount options tailored to your specific needs.

Yes, simplyblock pricing is pay-per-use. Simplyblock is charged by TB (terabyte) provisioned, meaning the amount of storage actually associated with logical volumes. That said, you can create a cluster with a combined capacity of 100TB, but you only have allocated 20TB into logical volumes (like 2x10TB volumes). These 20TB are the provisioned capacity and what you pay for.

Yes, simplyblock can be used in on-premises or air-gapped environments. Our solution is based on NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF), which allows for flexible deployment across various infrastructure setups. For air-gapped environments, simplyblock can be configured to work with local storage resources without requiring connection to cloud services. This makes it suitable for high-security scenarios or environments with strict data sovereignty requirements.

Simplyblock is NVMe-based solution, utilizing very fast local NVMe disk as "hot tier". As such, it offers better performance than Amazon EBS (lower latency, more IOPS/volume and higher throughput). Additionally, simplyblock might utilize Amazon EBS volumes as one of its storage backends, adding a layer of thin provisioning on top of it. Generally simplyblock offers several key advantages:

-Intelligent storage optimization and orchestration
-Automatic tiering between fast and slow storage
-Thin provisioning for better cost efficiency
-Built-in compression and deduplication
-Multi-tenant support with per-volume encryption
-Instant snapshots and clones for database branching
-Cross-AZ disaster recovery with near-zero RPO
-Unified access to EBS, S3, and local instance storage
-NVMe over TCP protocol for improved performance

While simplyblock is optimized for database workloads, it can be used for any application that requires persistent block storage in AWS. This includes file servers, content management systems, analytics platforms, streaming services (e.g. Kafka) and more. Simplyblock's features like thin provisioning, tiering, and instant cloning can benefit a wide range of storage use cases beyond just databases.

Multi-attach in simplyblock lets you connect a single volume to multiple instances at the same time. This is great for high availability setups without duplicating data. It saves on storage costs and simplifies your architecture. You don't need to manage multiple copies of data or worry about keeping them in sync. It also allows for quick failover in case one instance goes down.

Yes, simplyblock is natively based on SPDK and NVMe-of standard, supporting NVMe/TCP protocol. This means that there are no proprietary drivers needed to run simplyblock on your infrastructure - whether on-prem or on public clouds. Simplyblock provides high-performance software defined storage for Kubernetes based on industry standard protocols and standard Ethernet.