Object Storage Pricing and Limitations

Updated Thursday, February 27, 2020 by Linode Contributed by Linode

Note

Linode Object Storage is now available to the general public in the Newark and Frankfurt data centers! For billing information on Object Storage, see our Object Storage Pricing and Limitations guide.

Linode Object Storage offers affordable and full-featured cloud storage for unstructured data and static sites. This guide will outline Object Storage pricing, storage limitations, and data transfer quotas.

Pricing

Linode Object Storage costs a flat rate of $5 a month, and includes 250 gigabytes of storage. This flat rate is prorated, so if you use Object Storage for a fraction of the month you will be charged a fraction of the cost. For example, if you have Object Storage enabled for half of the month and use up to 250 gigabytes of storage you will be billed $2.50 at the end of the month. Each additional gigabyte of storage over the first 250 gigabytes will cost $0.02, and this usage is also prorated based on usage time.

Caution

Object Storage is similar to a subscription service. Once enabled, you will be billed at the flat rate regardless of whether or not there are active buckets on your account. You must Cancel Object Storage to stop billing for this service.

Note

For more information on enabling Object Storage, cancelling Object Storage, and more, see our How To Guide.

Available Locations

Below is a table of data center locations where Object Storage is available, and the corresponding URLs for each region’s clusters.

Data Center	Availability Date	Related Cluster URLs
Newark	November 1, 2019	us-east-1.linodeobjects.com
Frankfurt	February 28, 2020	eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com

Note

A cluster is defined as all buckets hosted by a unique URL; for example: us-east-1.linodeobjects.com, us-east-2.linodeobjects.com, or eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com.

Storage Limitations

Type of Limitation	Limitation	Notes
Storage Size	50 terabytes	This is the maximum amount of data you can store in one cluster.
Object Limit	50 million objects	This is the maximum amount of objects you can store in a single cluster.
Bucket Count	1000 buckets	This is the maximum number of buckets you can have in a single cluster.
Maximum Object Size	5 gigabytes	This is the maximum upload size of a single object. This limitation can be overcome by using multi-part uploads.

Currently, Object Storage accounts are limited to 50 terabytes of storage per cluster, or 50 million objects per cluster, whichever comes first. Separate clusters have separate limits, so it is possible to store 50 terabytes worth of objects in one cluster and 50 terabytes worth of objects in another. In the future, individual clusters may have separate storage maximums, and this guide will be updated to include those limits. Accounts can have up to 1000 buckets per cluster.

Individual object uploads are limited to a size of 5GB each, though larger object uploads can be facilitated with multipart uploads. s3cmd and cyberduck will do this for you automatically if a file exceeds this limit as part of the uploading process.

Note

If you need to increase the storage limit, the object limit, or the bucket limit, please open up a Customer Support ticket.

Transfer Quotas

Object Storage adds 1 terabyte of outbound data transfer to your data transfer pool. This 1 terabyte of transfer data is prorated. If you use Object Storage for half of a month, only 500 gigabytes of transfer data will be added to your monthly transfer pool. At this time, all outbound data, including data transfer from Object Storage to a Linode in the same data center, is billable.

You are not charged for uploading objects (inbound traffic) to Object Storage, with a few exceptions. Uploading an object to Object Storage from a Linode is almost always billable, as that is considered outbound traffic from the origin Linode. However, uploading an object from a Linode to Object Storage over IPv6 will be free, provided both the Linode and the bucket are hosted in the same data center. Any further outbound data past your transfer quota is charged at a rate of $0.01 a gigabyte. For more information on network transfer pools, review our Network Transfer Quota guide.

Rate Limiting

Users accessing Object Storage resources are limited to 750 requests per second, per bucket.

Note

The rate limits for Object Storage may be subject to change. This document will be updated to include any future changes.

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