OVHcloud 3-AZ Active Archive class
- Free allowance
- No free tier: the Active Archive class in a 3-AZ (Multi Zone) region is billed from the first GiB at USD 0.00000729 per GiB-hour (about USD 0.0053217 per GiB-month), with a 90-day minimum storage duration and USD 0.0212 per GiB retrieved
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 4.96/TB-monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented12 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | No free tier: the Active Archive class in a 3-AZ (Multi Zone) region is billed from the first GiB at USD 0.00000729 per GiB-hour (about USD 0.0053217 per GiB-month), with a 90-day minimum storage duration and USD 0.0212 per GiB retrieved unit none; metered on none; billed per GiB-hour; the monthly figure is the hourly price x 730 hours |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 4.96 per TB per month (USD 0.0053217 per GiB-month x 931.32 GiB per TB), plus USD 19.74 per TB retrieved; 90-day minimum |
| Limits |
Available only in the 3-AZ regions Paris and Milan: 99.99% availability SLA; a retrieval fee and a 90-day minimum storage duration apply |
| Binding | none none: storage has no stated cap, an object may reach 48 TiB, the per-bucket rates are soft defaults, and the 90-day minimum storage duration and the USD 0.0212 per GiB retrieval fee are billing terms, not limits |
| Identity | card an email address validated by a one-time code, the country of tax residence, and a valid payment method on the account before the first Public Cloud project |
| Egress | External ingoing and outgoing traffic, internal traffic and API requests are free; reading data back costs USD 0.0212 per GiB retrieved, counted on get-object requests, and the object stays instantly readable price per tb: USD 19.74 per TB retrieved (USD 0.0212 per GiB x 931.32 GiB per TB) |
| Per-object cap | 48 TiB per object through multipart upload; 5 GiB through a single PUT (52776558133248 bytes) |
| Retention | unlimited volume and time; each object is billed for a minimum of 2,190 hours (90 days), and an object deleted or moved to another class earlier is charged for the remaining hours |
| Interface | s3-compatible, rclone, cli S3-compatible API |
| Tooling | AWS CLI, rclone, s3cmd, any S3 SDK; lifecycle rules move objects between classes |
| Composes with | S3 origin behind a CDN or proxy; lifecycle rules move objects between this class and the Standard class |
| Reliability | 99.99% availability SLA, 3-AZ regions only; durability is stated as 11 nines for every class |
| Notes | offered only in 3-AZ Paris (eu-west-par) and 3-AZ Milan (eu-south-mil); objects stay instantly readable, unlike Cold Archive, which needs a restore first |
| Evidence note | documented documented: the international price list, the storage classes pages, the endpoints page and the technical limits page were read and quoted on 2026-11-03; a read timed from a bucket would make it measured |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 12
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/?currency=USD | the Active Archive class costs USD 0.00000729 per GiB-hour, about USD 0.0053217 per GiB-month, with a 90-day minimum, USD 0.0212 per GiB retrieved, and free traffic and API requests |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/?currency=USD | Object Storage is invoiced per GiB-hour and the monthly figure assumes 730 hours |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/?currency=USD | the minimum storage durations are 30 days for Infrequent Access and 90 days for Active Archive, and an early delete is charged for the remaining hours |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | Active Archive is a 3-AZ-only class with millisecond first-byte time, a 99.99% SLA, a 90-day minimum and a retrieval fee |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the Paris 3-AZ region supports the Active Archive class |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the Milan 3-AZ region supports the Active Archive class |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/regions-availability/ | Active Archive is offered in the 3-AZ Paris and 3-AZ Milan regions and in no other European region |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the largest object is 48 TiB by multipart upload and 5 GiB by a single PUT |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | Object Storage bandwidth is 1 Gbps per connection, lifted by parallel requests |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storag | the default write rate is 300 requests per second on a bucket, a soft limit |
| 2026-11-03 | www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/public-cloud/free-trial/ | a valid payment method is required on the account before the first Public Cloud project |
| 2026-11-03 | docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/a | account creation validates the email address with a one-time code |