GCP data-transfer costs
Google charges a monthly fee based on the amount and types of data transferred by
PowerProtect Data Manager and
DDVE in a Google cloud.
Consider the following information when planning your GCP architecture:
- Most of the data that is transferred in a Google cloud occurs between the hosts being protected and
DDVE.
- If Kubernetes is being used, data is also transferred between the protection engine hosts and
DDVE.
- Google does not have data-transfer fees for hosts that are in the same region.
- For current details of all Google data-transfer costs and other fees, see the
Google Cloud Pricing Calculator.
NOTE:To minimize data-transfer costs, minimize the path that data transfers take by using as few zones and regions as possible.
An example of data transfer
The following items describe a possible data-protection scenario where the hosts being protected and storage are in different regions:
- Outbound data transfers in the Central US region
- Twenty 100 GB databases that each have a daily change rate of 5 percent
- Weekly full backups
- Daily incremental backups and archived-log backups
- An average deduplication ratio of 2:1 for initial full backups and for incremental backups
- An average deduplication ratio of between 20:1 and 30:1 for subsequent full backups
This data-protection scenario would result in approximately 3,600 GB of data transfer in the first month.