{"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. Volume ladder: up to 10 TB ₽1.35, 10-50 TB ₽1.31, 50 TB+ lower (per Selectel's own price-c...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":6},"record":{"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/","category":"object-storage","free_tier":{"stated":"Ice (ледяное) ₽0.89/GB/mo; Cold ₽1.26/GB/mo; Standard ₽2.57/GB/mo. Volume ladder: up to 10 TB ₽1.35, 10-50 TB ₽1.31, 50 TB+ lower (per Selectel's own price-change digest).","unit":"GB","metered_on":"unstated","source_url":"https://selectel.ru/services/cloud/storage/","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://selectel.ru/services/cloud/storage/","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://selectel.ru/services/cloud/storage/","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"METERED at ₽1.96/GB on every class, plus paid requests — Ice requests are the most expensive in the set at ₽361 per 1 M GET/HEAD and ₽3,009 per 1 M PUT (`serverdelo.ru` table, prices verified 2026-10-03). This is the trap: the cheapest storage line in Russia pairs with the most expensive retrieval. 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. No reliability concern; the concern is purely the egress and per-request structure.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://serverdelo.ru/rejtingi/s3-hranilishche/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"«Цены сверены с сайтами провайдеров 3 октября 2026 года»: «Selectel, ледяное | 0,89 ₽ | 1,96 ₽ | 361 ₽ и 3 009 ₽»; «Selectel, холодное | 1,26 ₽ | 1,96 ₽ | 224 ₽ и 2 040 ₽»; «Selectel, стандартное | 2,57 ₽ | 1,38 ₽ | 54 ₽ и 714 ₽»"},{"url":"https://selectel.ru/services/cloud/storage/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"read broker, upstream_status 200: three-copy storage across racks, unlimited volume, S3 API, IAM, 152-FZ/PCI DSS/ISO 27001/27017/27018"},{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/202606/selectel.ru/services/cloud/storage/special-tariff/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"> replay of 20250615190112: «До 31 августа подключите стандартное объектное хранилище по специальному тарифу и не платите за исходящий трафик и запросы весь год … 2 ₽ за хранение 1 ГБ данных; 10 000 ₽ за подключение ежемесячно. Исходящий трафик и запросы к API — бесплатные»"},{"url":"https://selectel.ru/blog/digest08_23/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"volume ladder «До 10 ТБ 1,63 ₽ → 1,35 ₽; От 10 до 50 ТБ → 1,31 ₽»"},{"url":"https://s3.ru-7.storage.selcloud.ru/","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: curl -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' -> 403"}],"verdict":"fails-egress","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"Ice: $11.04/TB/mo storage PLUS $24.31/TB for every full read-back (₽1.96/GB × 1024) — so one complete retrieval costs 2.2 months of storage. Realistic cold-archive usage (store 1 TB, read 250 GB per month): $11.04 + $6.08 = $17.12/TB/mo. At 50 % monthly read: $23.19/TB/mo. Identical at 5 TB and 20 …","notes":"Ice (ледяное) ₽0.89/GB/mo; Cold ₽1.26/GB/mo; Standard ₽2.57/GB/mo. Volume ladder: up to 10 TB ₽1.35, 10-50 TB ₽1.31, 50 TB+ lower (per Selectel's own price-change digest).","extras":{"dead_end":{"failure_class":"quota","why":"Ice (ледяное) ₽0.89/GB/mo; Cold ₽1.26/GB/mo; Standard ₽2.57/GB/mo. Volume ladder: up to 10 TB ₽1.35, 10-50 TB ₽1.31, 50 TB+ lower (per Selectel's own price-change digest).","retry_when":null,"first_recorded":"2026-10-21"},"price_verbatim":"Ice: $11.04/TB/mo storage PLUS $24.31/TB for every full read-back (₽1.96/GB × 1024) — so one complete retrieval costs 2.2 months of storage. Realistic cold-archive usage (store 1 TB, read 250 GB per month): $11.04 + $6.08 = $17.12/TB/mo. At 50 % monthly read: $23.19/TB/mo. Identical at 5 TB and 20 TB because storage is per-GB with only a 3 % volume step (₽1.35 → ₽1.31 above 10 TB). Standard class: $31.87/TB/mo storage + $17.11/TB per read-back. Ice request billing is the harsher trap for small objects: ₽361 per 1 M GET/HEAD = $4.37 per million, so a 20 TiB corpus of 1 MB shards (20 M GETs) incurs $87 in requests alone per full pass. Promo tariff (egress waived, archived capture): ₽2/GB + ₽10,000/mo flat = $36.91/TB/mo at 10 TB, $30.86/TB/mo at 20 TB, i.e. 4.0×/3.3× OVH One-Zone — the waiv…"},"binding":"none","binding_note":"no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":10,"unit":"TB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":23.19,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":23.19,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.extras.dead_end.retry_when","process"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.stated","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}