SoftNAS^® Cost Saving Calculator

Calculate savings on AWS EFS or Azure Files with Buurst’s SoftNAS Cloud NAS Cost Saving Calculator

SoftNAS^® Cost Saving Calculator

Calculate savings on AWS EFS or Azure Files with Buurst’s SoftNAS Cloud NAS Cost Saving Calculator

1. Choose your comparison:

AWS Elastic File System
Azure Files

2. Choose current total storage(TB) amount: (4TB to 16PB)

3a. Choose premium (T1) storage amount:

%

3b. Standard (T2) storage amount: (Auto-adjust based on 3a)

0%

4. Choose deduplication amount: (Typical deduplication is 20% - 30%)

20%

5. Choose compression amount: (Typical compression is 40% - 60%)

40%

6. Choose High Availability options

SINGLE (Single zone, no HA)
SNAP HA (Dual zone HA 99.999% uptime guarantee)

Monthly Savings with Buurst

Amount	T1 Storage	T2 Storage	SoftNAS
SoftNAS	19,661	0	2,285
AWS EFS	122,880	0

Output results based on SoftNAS 800 for comparison purpose

Cost savings with Buurst

82%

$100,934 savings per month

$1,211,212 per year

$6,056,058 over five years

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	SoftNAS	Azure Files
T1 Storage
T2 Storage
SoftNAS
Total

	SoftNAS	AWS EFS
T1 Storage	$19,661	$122,880
T2 Storage	$0	$0
SoftNAS	$2,285
Total	$21,946	$122,880

Buurst SoftNAS Performance-Based Pricing

Buurst unbundles the cost of storage and performance. Since Buurst does not charge you for storage, attach as much as needed. When you need to add storage performance, add additional SoftNAS computing power to your existing storage. At Buurst, our focus is on providing you with the best performance, availability, cost management, migration, and control. We’ve carried this through our pricing model to ensure you’re getting the best data experience on the cloud of your choice.

		Buurst SoftNAS	Azure NetApp Files	NetApp ONTAP	Azure Files	AWS EFS	AWS FSx
Cost	Deduplication
	Compression
	Tiering
	Lowest $ / Storage
	Lowest $ / Perf
HA	99.999% SLA
	Cross Region Replication
	Cross Zone HA
Protocols	NFS
	iSCSI
	CIFS/SMB
	Simultaneously NFS / CIFS

High Availability

SoftNAS offers a choice for your high availability needs. In the cloud, block storage provides 99.9% durability or more for servers with direct-attached storage. Snap HA is for customers who want highly available (enterprise) features of a NAS in the cloud.

	SoftNAS SNAP HA™
High Availability	99.999%
SoftNAS	2 Controllers
Storage	Two sets of redundant RAID storage
Availability Zones	Two zones
Replicate across availability zones	Yes
Virtual IP (VIP)	Yes