Block storage
High-performance block storage for any use case
Reliable, high-performance block storage for virtual machine instances. Choose from Hyperdisk, Persistent Disk, or Local SSD.
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Features
Workload-optimize your storage
With Hyperdisk you can provision capacity and performance independently, so you can dynamically tune storage to your workload. Serve the most demanding applications with 10 GiB/s of throughput and 500,000 IOPS from a single Hyperdisk.
Lower TCO and increase your utilization with Storage Pools
With Hyperdisk Storage Pools you can go from managing hundreds of disks to a single Pool, all while reducing your storage TCO by up to 40%. Provision and manage capacity and performance in aggregate, simplifying cloud operations. Use thin provisioning, data reduction, and capacity pooling to increase utilization.
Instantly protect your workloads
Radically shorten your backup window and easily and quickly recover with Instant Snapshots. Provide cross-zone high-availability with low RPO and RTO with Regional Persistent Disk. Take advantage of built-in cross-region disaster recovery, providing geo-redundancy for the most sensitive workloads with Asynchronous Persistent Disk.
Take advantage of Titanium, our next-generation, tiered offload architecture
Hyperdisk is built on Titanium. Titanium is a system of purpose-built, custom, silicon, security microcontrollers, and tiered scale-out offloads that works by offloading processing from the host hardware. This next-generation technology delivers up to 500k IOPS per instance for Hyperdisk Extreme block storage; the highest among leading hyperscalers.
Block storage options for any workload
| Block storage options for any workload | Pick the best block storage for your performance needs and budget. | |
|---|---|---|
| Service | Description | Best for |
Hyperdisk Throughput | Massive scale and high-bandwidth storage | Scale-out analytics, data drives for cost-sensitive apps, cold disks |
Hyperdisk Balanced | General purpose volumes, comes with 3k IOPS baseline | Enterprise applications, databases, boot disks |
Hyperdisk Extreme | Guaranteed high-performance storage | SAP HANA, SQL Server, Oracle DBs |
Hyperdisk Storage Pools | Manage Hyperdisk capacity and performance in aggregate, with thin-provisioning and data reduction | Simplified block storage management, lower TCO, and increased efficiency |
Local SSD | Low latency, high-performance temporary storage | Caches, scratch processing space, temporary data storage |
Persistent Disk | Google Cloud’s first generation enterprise-ready block storage for existing VM families | Analytics, databases, boot disks, SAP/HANA, Oracle, and virtual desktops |
Block storage options for any workload
Pick the best block storage for your performance needs and budget.
Hyperdisk Throughput
Massive scale and high-bandwidth storage
Scale-out analytics, data drives for cost-sensitive apps, cold disks
Hyperdisk Balanced
General purpose volumes, comes with 3k IOPS baseline
Enterprise applications, databases, boot disks
Hyperdisk Extreme
Guaranteed high-performance storage
SAP HANA, SQL Server, Oracle DBs
Hyperdisk Storage Pools
Manage Hyperdisk capacity and performance in aggregate, with thin-provisioning and data reduction
Simplified block storage management, lower TCO, and increased efficiency
Local SSD
Low latency, high-performance temporary storage
Caches, scratch processing space, temporary data storage
Persistent Disk
Google Cloud’s first generation enterprise-ready block storage for existing VM families
Analytics, databases, boot disks, SAP/HANA, Oracle, and virtual desktops
How It Works
Hyperdisk is built on Titanium, which is a next-generation, tiered offload architecture. Titanium is a system of purpose-built, custom, silicon, security microcontrollers, and tiered scale-out offloads, which improve infrastructure performance, life cycle management, reliability, and security.
Titanium underpins Google Cloud’s latest compute instance types (C3, A3, H3), Hyperdisk block storage, networking, and more and is available at no additional cost.
Common Uses
Benefit from the highest performance for SAP HANA and SQL Server
Use Hyperdisk Extreme for workloads with the highest performance need
Use Hyperdisk Extreme for workloads with the highest performance need
Google Cloud Hyperdisk is the next-generation of block storage for Compute Engine. It offloads and dynamically scales out storage processing, enabling substantially higher performance, flexibility, and efficiency. With Hyperdisk Extreme, you can take advantage of this new technology to run workloads like SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server with the fastest single volume performance in the cloud.
Serve the most demanding workloads in the cloud with 500k IOPS and 10 GiBps. See performance limits
Provision IOPS separately from capacity, saving 50% vs Persistent Disk Extreme. Learn how Hyperdisk works
Dynamically provision performance: Adjust performance for running workloads without downtime. Learn more
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Use Hyperdisk Extreme for workloads with the highest performance need
Use Hyperdisk Extreme for workloads with the highest performance need
Google Cloud Hyperdisk is the next-generation of block storage for Compute Engine. It offloads and dynamically scales out storage processing, enabling substantially higher performance, flexibility, and efficiency. With Hyperdisk Extreme, you can take advantage of this new technology to run workloads like SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server with the fastest single volume performance in the cloud.
Serve the most demanding workloads in the cloud with 500k IOPS and 10 GiBps. See performance limits
Provision IOPS separately from capacity, saving 50% vs Persistent Disk Extreme. Learn how Hyperdisk works
Dynamically provision performance: Adjust performance for running workloads without downtime. Learn more
Lower your TCO and increase efficiency with Hyperdisk Storage Pools
Use thin-provisioning and data reduction to lower your TCO
Learning resources
Use thin-provisioning and data reduction to lower your TCO
See TCO savings of up to 40% with Kafka and Hadoop
Use Hyperdisk Throughput for scale-out analytics workloads
Use Hyperdisk Throughput for scale-out analytics workloads
Hyperdisk Throughput offers up to 3 GB/s of throughput with full read/write parity, 7.5x higher write throughput, and 2.5x higher read throughput compared to Standard PD. This level of performance allows you to effectively run your scale-out analytics workloads, such as Hadoop and Kafka.
Dramatically improved TCO: Over 60% savings compared to PD-Standard. Review pricing details
Substantially higher performance: Up to 3GB/s, 7.5X higher than PD-Standard. Learn more about supported values for Hyperdisk volumes
Dynamically provisioning performance: Adjust performance for running workloads without downtime. Learn how to modify a Hyperdisk volume
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Use Hyperdisk Throughput for scale-out analytics workloads
Use Hyperdisk Throughput for scale-out analytics workloads
Hyperdisk Throughput offers up to 3 GB/s of throughput with full read/write parity, 7.5x higher write throughput, and 2.5x higher read throughput compared to Standard PD. This level of performance allows you to effectively run your scale-out analytics workloads, such as Hadoop and Kafka.
Dramatically improved TCO: Over 60% savings compared to PD-Standard. Review pricing details
Substantially higher performance: Up to 3GB/s, 7.5X higher than PD-Standard. Learn more about supported values for Hyperdisk volumes
Dynamically provisioning performance: Adjust performance for running workloads without downtime. Learn how to modify a Hyperdisk volume
Choose low latency ephemeral storage for AI/ML
Use Local SSD for AI and machine learning workloads to download and process data
Use Local SSD for AI and machine learning workloads to download and process data
For AI/ML training and serving that need high performance, low latency temporary storage, using Local solid-state drive (Local SSD) disks. Local SSD disks offer superior IOPS, and very low latency.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Use Local SSD for AI and machine learning workloads to download and process data
Use Local SSD for AI and machine learning workloads to download and process data
For AI/ML training and serving that need high performance, low latency temporary storage, using Local solid-state drive (Local SSD) disks. Local SSD disks offer superior IOPS, and very low latency.
Run PostgresSQL, MySQL, and modern databases
Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud, while lowering your TCO
Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud, while lowering your TCO
Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud. Hyperdisk lets you provision the capacity and performance you need, while serving the most demanding workloads.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud, while lowering your TCO
Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud, while lowering your TCO
Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud. Hyperdisk lets you provision the capacity and performance you need, while serving the most demanding workloads.
Modernize virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and IT infrastructure
Deliver virtual desktops, servers, and IT infrastructure across the globe while lowering TCO.
Deliver virtual desktops, servers, and IT infrastructure across the globe while lowering TCO.
Leverage the scale and flexibility of the cloud to deliver desktops and IT as a service.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Deliver virtual desktops, servers, and IT infrastructure across the globe while lowering TCO.
Deliver virtual desktops, servers, and IT infrastructure across the globe while lowering TCO.
Leverage the scale and flexibility of the cloud to deliver desktops and IT as a service.
Configure a workload-level business continuity and data protection strategy
Protect your data and ensure your workloads are highly available
Protect your data and ensure your workloads are highly available
Ensure your data is protected using Instant Snapshots. Avoid outages by ensuring your data is available across zones and regions with Replication and Regional Disks.
Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs
Protect your data and ensure your workloads are highly available
Protect your data and ensure your workloads are highly available
Ensure your data is protected using Instant Snapshots. Avoid outages by ensuring your data is available across zones and regions with Replication and Regional Disks.
Pricing
| Block storage pricing | Pricing for Hyperdisk is based on provisioned capacity, throughput, and IOPS, standalone or in a Storage Pool with Advanced Capacity. Data protection products are priced on capacity and network charges. | |
|---|---|---|
| Category / type | Description | Price (us-central1) |
Hyperdisk Throughput | Capacity, GB provisioned | Standalone: $0.005 Advanced Pool: $0.009 |
Throughput, MB/s provisioned | $0.250 | |
Hyperdisk Balanced | Capacity, GB provisioned | Standalone: $0.080 Advanced Pool: $0.14 |
Throughput, MB/s provisioned | $0.040 | |
IOPS, per IOPS provisioned | $0.005 | |
Hyperdisk Extreme | Capacity, GB provisioned | $0.125 |
IOPS, per IOPS provisioned | $0.032 | |
Local SSD | Provisioned capacity | $0.036 |
Persistent Disk Standard | Capacity, GB provisioned | $0.04 |
Persistent Disk Balanced | Capacity, GB provisioned | $0.1 |
Persistent Disk SSD | Capacity, GB provisioned | $0.17 |
Persistent Disk Extreme | Capacity, GB provisioned | $0.125 |
IOPS, per IOPS provisioned | $0.064 | |
Snapshots | Standard snapshot storage, GB provisioned | $0.065 |
Archive snapshot storage, GB provisioned | $0.019 | |
Archive snapshot retrieval, GB retrieved | $0.019 | |
Regional Persistent Disk | Regional capacity, GB provisioned | $0.08 |
Asynchronous Persistent Disk | Asynchronous Replication Protection, GB provisioned | $0.04 |
Asynchronous Replication Networking, GiB | $0.02 | |
All prices are for the Iowa (us-central1) region. For more detailed pricing information, please view the pricing guide.
Block storage pricing
Pricing for Hyperdisk is based on provisioned capacity, throughput, and IOPS, standalone or in a Storage Pool with Advanced Capacity. Data protection products are priced on capacity and network charges.
Hyperdisk Throughput
Capacity, GB provisioned
Standalone: $0.005
Advanced Pool: $0.009
Throughput, MB/s provisioned
$0.250
Hyperdisk Balanced
Capacity, GB provisioned
Standalone: $0.080
Advanced Pool: $0.14
Throughput, MB/s provisioned
$0.040
IOPS, per IOPS provisioned
$0.005
Hyperdisk Extreme
Capacity, GB provisioned
$0.125
IOPS, per IOPS provisioned
$0.032
Local SSD
Provisioned capacity
$0.036
Persistent Disk Standard
Capacity, GB provisioned
$0.04
Persistent Disk Balanced
Capacity, GB provisioned
$0.1
Persistent Disk SSD
Capacity, GB provisioned
$0.17
Persistent Disk Extreme
Capacity, GB provisioned
$0.125
IOPS, per IOPS provisioned
$0.064
Snapshots
Standard snapshot storage, GB provisioned
$0.065
Archive snapshot storage, GB provisioned
$0.019
Archive snapshot retrieval, GB retrieved
$0.019
Regional Persistent Disk
Regional capacity, GB provisioned
$0.08
Asynchronous Persistent Disk
Asynchronous Replication Protection, GB provisioned
$0.04
Asynchronous Replication Networking, GiB
$0.02
All prices are for the Iowa (us-central1) region. For more detailed pricing information, please view the pricing guide.
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