Free Block Storage
Unleash High-Performance Storage
Transform your applications with OVHcloud block storage. Designed for speed, reliability, and seamless integration, our block storage provides persistent low latency, ensuring your most demanding workloads always have the performance they need. You can also count on predictable pricing for your enterprise-grade data infrastructure.
Power Your Applications with Fast Block Storage
OVHcloud block storage is built to deliver the speed and resilience your critical applications demand, offering a foundation of performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Unrivalled Performance And Reliability
- SSD-backed volumes for ultra-low latency and blazing-fast I/O operations.
- Consistent and predictable performance, even under heavy loads.
- High availability and data durability, safeguarding your critical information.
Flexible Scalability And Integration
- Easily scale your storage capacity on demand without downtime.
- Attach and detach volumes to your instances in minutes, adapting to changing needs.
- Choose from a range of volume sizes to perfectly match your application requirements.
Transparent Pricing
- Benefit from OVHcloud's commitment to predictable, competitive pricing and a free trial.
- Pay-as-you-go model with no hidden fees, optimising your cloud expenditure.
- Manufactured in-house servers ensure an excellent performance-to-price ratio.
Ideal for Dynamic Workloads and Data Persistence
OVHcloud block storage integrates effortlessly with your Public Cloud instances, providing essential persistent storage that remains independent of your virtual machines. This means your data is secure and accessible even if an instance is terminated or restarted, making it the perfect choice for stateful applications, databases, and any workload requiring high data integrity and continuous availability.
Sector Focus
E-commerce Sales
Boosting Online Revenue Through Rapid Data Access
Boosting Online Revenue Through Rapid Data Access
For fast-paced e-commerce platforms and retail applications, high-performance and reliable storage enables efficient, consistent transaction processing – never lose a sale.
- Rapid access to customer databases for seamless customer experiences.
- Secure and reliable storage for real-time transactional data and order processing.
- Instantly scale storage during peak sales periods like Black Friday without performance bottlenecks.
Media And Entertainment
Accelerating Content Production and Distribution Workflows
Media companies require robust, high-performance storage solutions for managing large media files, enabling efficient video editing, rendering, and smooth content delivery.
- Fast I/O for high-resolution video editing, rendering, and post-production workflows.
- Reliable and persistent storage for vast media libraries, ensuring content availability.
- Seamless integration with content delivery networks (CDNs) for rapid global distribution.
Software Development And DevOps
Empowering Agile Development and CI/CD
Developers and DevOps teams need agile, persistent, and high-performance storage for development environments, databases, and robust delivery pipelines.
- Persistent storage for code repositories and user testing environments.
- Rapid cloning, archiving and provisioning for parallel development and faster iterations.
- High-performance storage for containerised applications and microservices.
Customer Success Stories
"We kept hitting the limits of our previous cloud solution. Pushing those limits would have been beyond any budget."
Tom Armitage, Senior Technical Writer at MapTiler
“As we grew, OVHcloud grew with us. We could add additional servers as we needed, and spoke with our account manager to forecast and plan our growth. As we continue to grow at a fast pace, OVHcloud delivers what we need when we need it.”
Lee Smith, CEO, Logit.io
Discover Other OVHcloud Storage Solutions
Cloud Storage
OVHcloud Cloud Storage offers a comprehensive suite of storage solutions designed to meet diverse needs at a great price. From highly scalable object storage for unstructured data to high-performance block storage for your demanding applications, our cloud storage services provide flexibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. Choose the right storage for your workloads and scale and archive effortlessly as your requirements grow.
Object Storage
Object Storage from OVHcloud is a highly scalable and durable solution for storing vast amounts of unstructured data. Whether it's backups, archives, media content, or large datasets, our object storage provides virtually unlimited capacity. It’s accessible via standard APIs, ensuring seamless integration with your applications, and offers a cost-effective way to transfer, manage and archive your data without the complexities of traditional file systems.
Local Zone
OVHcloud Local Zones is an extension of our global cloud regions, bringing core OVHcloud services closer to specific geographic locations. This innovative approach significantly reduces latency transfer for your applications and data by minimising the physical distance data needs to travel. Ideal for workloads requiring ultra-low latency, or for meeting specific data residency requirements, Local Zones allow you to transfer and deploy resources in metro areas with high user demand, ensuring a faster and more responsive transfer experience for your customers, and it all comes at a great price point.
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FAQ
What is OVHcloud Block Storage used for?
You’ll be happy to learn that OVHcloud block storage is a versatile, high-performance storage solution primarily utilised for scenarios requiring direct, low-latency access to data, similar to how a local hard drive functions, but with the added benefits of cloud scalability and flexibility.
It is ideally suited for hosting transactional databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB, where consistent and rapid input/output (I/O) operations are paramount. Developers and DevOps teams leverage block storage for persistent volumes in containerised applications and microservices, ensuring that data remains available even as containers are moved or restarted.
What does the free tier block storage trial include?
The cloud free trial for OVHcloud Public Cloud services, which encompasses block storage, typically provides a free tier credit that can be used to explore and utilise various Public Cloud products, including block storage volumes, for a period of one month or up to the credit left in that month for your tier.
This credit in that month allows you to deploy instances, attach Block Storage volumes of various sizes, and experience the performance and flexibility of the service without immediate financial commitment.
How do I activate the free tier Block storage on OVHcloud?
Activating your free tier Block storage on OVHcloud typically begins by creating your first free Public Cloud project and activating the associated free trial credit for the month. To do this, you would first log into your OVHcloud Control Panel.
Navigate to the Public Cloud section, and if it's your first Public Cloud project, you'll usually learn there’s an option to launch your project with the free credit.
Once your Public Cloud project is active, you can then proceed to the "Block Storage" section within your project.
From there, you'll be guided to create a new volume, where you select the desired location (ensuring it's in the same region as your instance), volume type, and capacity, and provide a name.
Is OVHcloud block storage secure and redundant?
OVHcloud block storage is engineered with robust security and redundancy features to ensure the integrity and availability of your data. For redundancy, you will learn that our servers employ triple data replication, meaning that each block storage volume's data is stored across three separate disks within a cluster, providing a significantly higher level of durability compared to traditional RAID systems.
This distribution of data across multiple servers in different physical locations within the datacenter mitigates the risk of data loss from single component failures, as we learn. Furthermore, learn that for regions offering multiple availability zones, OVHcloud block storage can support high availability requirements by distributing data across these distinct zones with optional archive.