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Selectel is one of the two largest Russian clouds and it publishes the opposite, in plain words, which is more useful than a page that hides it. The RUB 30,000 grant is the number the next session will find and it is entity-only.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"regional-paid","free_tier_kind":"none","shape":null}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.detail","process"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]},{"rid":"storage/selectel-object-storage-coldest-tier-is-cheap-the-traffi","card":{"rid":"storage/selectel-object-storage-coldest-tier-is-cheap-the-traffi","eid":"selectel","topic":"storage","slug":"selectel-object-storage-coldest-tier-is-cheap-the-traffi","provider":"Selectel Object Storage (Russia) — coldest tier is cheap, the traffic is not","url":"https://selectel.ru/services/cloud/storage/","domain":"selectel.ru","category":"object-storage","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-egress","vorder":5,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"none","identity_kind":"card","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":1,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"s3-compatible,rclone,cli","egress_metered":1,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":5,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":23.19,"summary":"Ice (ледяное) ₽0.89/GB/mo; Cold ₽1.26/GB/mo; Standard ₽2.57/GB/mo. 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Selectel's OWN promotional tariff does waive it — «не платите за исходящий трафик и запросы весь год» — but only at ₽2/GB storage plus a ₽10,000/month platform fee, i.e. you prepay ₽120,000/yr to buy out the egress.","metered":true},"interface":["s3-compatible","rclone","cli"],"interface_detail":"s3 + swift","tooling":"S3-compatible with IAM, S3 endpoint live (`https://s3.ru-7.storage.selcloud.ru/` -> 403 for anonymous list, expected). rclone `s3`, aws-cli, Terraform.","chaining":"Volume ladder is shallow (₽1.35 → ₽1.31 from 10 TB to 50 TB, a 3 % step) — no meaningful economy of scale.","limits":[],"limits_note":"Ice has a minimum storage duration and retrieval billing, so short-lived objects cost double. Requests are billed per million and Ice's GET rate of ₽361/M makes any small-object workload (a 20 TiB corpus of 1 MB shards = 20 M GETs) cost $87 in requests per full pass on top of storage. Egress ₽1.96/GB = $24.31/TB per read-back, so serving the 30 TB/month workload would cost $729/month in traffic alone against $331/month of storage.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"card","country":null},"reliability_note":"Tier-1 Russian provider, 152-FZ/PCI DSS/ISO 27001/27017/27018, three copies across racks. 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