Service pricing

Because HYCU for Google Cloud utilizes Google Cloud for its service needs, when you enable data protection, you are charged for the backup service, data retention, and the resources that are required for the backup and recovery services.

The total data protection cost is the sum of the following costs:

Slices of total data protection cost

Figure: Data protection cost

Cost Details
Backup and data retention Cost of backing up data and data retention. For details, see “Backup and data retention pricing”.
Backup data storage

Cost of storing backup data. The following factors are considered:

  • Target type (a snapshot or a bucket)

  • Backup frequency

  • Size of backup data

  • Backup retention period

If you use a bucket as a target, the following is also considered:

  • Use of copies of backup data

  • Use of data archives, configured archive tiers and their retention periods

  • Enabled restore of individual files or folders
Temporary resources

Cost of temporary resources that HYCU for Google Cloud creates in Google Cloud when performing the following tasks:

  • Instance rediscovery after assigning a credential group

  • Instance rediscovery after selecting the Enable restore of individual files option

  • Backup of instances

  • Backup of applications

  • Backup of buckets

  • Restore of instances or entire instance disks

  • Restore of individual files or folders

  • Restore of applications

  • Restore of buckets

A HYCU for Google Cloud subscription includes a 14-day free trial period. During this time, HYCU does not charge you for the backup and data retention cost. The cost of backup data storage and temporary resources is charged by Google as usual.

For more details on pricing, see Google Cloud Marketplace.

Backup and data retention pricing

The HYCU for Google Cloud backup and data retention pricing model provides you with the simplicity and transparency of consumption-based pricing. At the end of your 14-day free trial period, you are billed according to the subscription plan that you select when subscribing to HYCU for Google Cloud. For details on the subscription plans, see “HYCU for Google Cloud subscription plans”.

Pricing for data protection is based on the following (within a monthly billing cycle):

  • Capacity of all disks belonging to protected instances and applications
  • Size of protected buckets
  • Pricing tiers to which protected instances and buckets belong

A pricing tier to which a protected instance, application, or bucket belongs is determined when you assign a policy to the instance, application, or bucket. HYCU for Google Cloud automatically associates the instance, application, or bucket with one of the pricing tiers based on the value of the Backup every option in the policy that defines how frequently data is backed up. For details on policies, see “Defining your backup strategy”.

Depending on how frequently your data is backed up, each protected instance, application, or bucket belongs to one of the following pricing tiers:

Pricing tier Data backup frequency (in hours)
platinum 1–3 hours
gold 4–11 hours
silver 12–23 hours
bronze 24 hours or more

Considerations

  • If an instance, an application, or a bucket is deleted from Google Cloud, but it still has at least one valid restore point available, it is considered protected (its status is PROTECTED_DELETED) and HYCU automatically associates such an entity with the bronze pricing tier. In the case of instances, it charges you for protecting only the included disks.
  • If you unassign a policy from an instance, an application, or a bucket that still has at least one valid restore point available, such an entity is considered protected and HYCU automatically associates it with the bronze pricing tier. In the case of instances, it charges you for protecting only the included disks.
  • Applicable for instances and applications running on them. If you assign policies to an instance and an application running on the same instance, keep in mind that you will be charged for both protecting the instance and protecting the application.

HYCU for Google Cloud subscription plans

HYCU for Google Cloud offers you the following subscription plans:

  • Pay-as-you-go plan

    Select this plan if you want to pay only for what you use for data protection each month.

    For details on the pay-as-you-go subscription plan, see Google Cloud Marketplace.

  • Annual subscription plans

    You can choose among different annual subscription plans with token-based pricing.

    For more information, contact your HYCU sales representative.