Granular Control for Smarter Cost Management

At DigitalOcean, we’re committed to providing our customers with the tools they need to manage their cloud infrastructure efficiently. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Per-Bucket Bandwidth Billing for DigitalOcean Spaces, a feature that offers an improved level of transparency and control over your bandwidth usage. This new functionality will empower you to better understand and manage your costs, helping you optimize your cloud spending with ease.

What is DigitalOcean Spaces?

DigitalOcean Spaces is our object storage service, designed to store and serve large amounts of unstructured data such as images, videos, backups, and web assets. It’s an ideal solution for developers and businesses looking for scalable, reliable, and cost-effective storage. However, as your usage grows and projects multiply, managing and understanding bandwidth costs across multiple buckets can become challenging.

What’s New: Per-Bucket Bandwidth Billing

The primary function of the new Per-Bucket Bandwidth Billing feature is to provide a granular breakdown of your Spaces bandwidth usage on your end-of-month invoices and month-to-date summaries. This feature allows you to see exactly how much bandwidth each bucket consumes, breaking down the costs associated with direct origin traffic, CDN traffic, and daily usage. By offering this level of detail, we’re enabling you to track and manage your bandwidth costs more effectively, helping to prevent overages and optimize your budget.

Enhanced Features

Here’s what the new release brings to the table:

• Granular Bandwidth Breakdown: Your invoices and month-to-date summaries now include detailed data on Spaces bandwidth usage, broken down by bucket, by direct origin traffic versus CDN traffic, and by day. This feature is available in both PDF and CSV versions for customers with fewer than 100 Spaces buckets, and in CSV format for those managing over 100 buckets.

• Daily and Origin/CDN Traffic Tracking: The enhanced reporting distinguishes between origin and CDN traffic, giving you the ability to monitor daily bandwidth usage before an overage occurs. This feature is crucial for ensuring that your CDN is configured correctly and for identifying buckets that contribute the most to your bandwidth costs.

• Cost Management and Prevention of Overages: By providing detailed insights into your bandwidth usage, this feature helps you manage your costs more effectively. Whether you’re tracking costs for different applications, projects, or clients, you’ll now have the information you need to prevent budget overages.

Enhanced Visibility for a Variety of Customer Use Cases

This feature is particularly beneficial for a variety of customer segments, including:

• Agencies and Consultancies: Managing multiple projects often requires detailed cost tracking, and the ability to distinguish costs by bucket is invaluable.

• Startups and Small Businesses: For those focused on budget management, this feature provides the insights needed to help ensure efficient resource allocation and avoid unexpected costs.

• Web and Media Hosting: Bandwidth usage in these industries can be unpredictable and significant, making this feature essential for managing costs effectively.

• SaaS Providers: Accurate cost allocation for client-specific buckets is really useful for SaaS providers, and this feature allows for precise tracking.

We’re excited to bring this new level of transparency and control to your DigitalOcean experience. To learn more and start using Per-Bucket Bandwidth Billing today, visit the Spaces product page. To explore the low pricing options available (from just $5 per month) for Spaces Object Storage, view the pricing page. If you have any questions or would like to discuss migrating from AWS S3 or other object storage, our team is here to help.

DigitalOcean remains committed to simplifying cloud infrastructure, making it more accessible and manageable for businesses of all sizes. Dive into the power of detailed bandwidth insights today and take control of your cloud costs like never before!