Persistent Disk

Block storage

High-performance block storage for any use case

Reliable, high-performance block storage for virtual machine instances. Choose from Hyperdisk, Persistent Disk, or Local SSD.

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Features

Workload-optimize your storage

With Hyperdisk you can provision capacity and performance independently, so you can dynamically tune storage to your workload. Serve the most demanding applications with 10 GiB/s of throughput and 500,000 IOPS from a single Hyperdisk. Learn how to move to a new compute instance.

Lower TCO and increase your utilization with Storage Pools

With Hyperdisk Storage Pools you can go from managing hundreds of disks to a single Pool, all while reducing your storage TCO by up to 40%. Provision and manage capacity and performance in aggregate, simplifying cloud operations. Use thin provisioning, data reduction, and capacity pooling to increase utilization.

Instantly protect your workloads

Radically shorten your backup window and easily and quickly recover with Instant Snapshots. Provide cross-zone high-availability with low RPO and RTO with Regional Persistent Disk. Take advantage of built-in cross-region disaster recovery, providing geo-redundancy for the most sensitive workloads with Asynchronous Persistent Disk.

Take advantage of Titanium, our next-generation, tiered offload architecture

Hyperdisk is built on Titanium. Titanium is a system of purpose-built, custom, silicon, security microcontrollers, and tiered scale-out offloads that works by offloading processing from the host hardware. This next-generation technology delivers up to 500k IOPS per instance for Hyperdisk Extreme block storage; the highest among leading hyperscalers.


Block storage options for any workload

Block storage options for any workloadPick the best block storage for your performance needs and budget.
ServiceDescriptionBest for

Hyperdisk Throughput

Massive scale and high-bandwidth storage

Scale-out analytics, data drives for cost-sensitive apps, cold disks

Hyperdisk Balanced

General purpose volumes, comes with 3k IOPS baseline

Enterprise applications, databases, boot disks

Hyperdisk Extreme

Guaranteed high-performance storage

SAP HANA, SQL Server, Oracle DBs

Hyperdisk Storage Pools

Manage Hyperdisk capacity and performance in aggregate, with thin-provisioning and data reduction

Simplified block storage management, lower TCO, and increased efficiency

Local SSD

Low latency, high-performance temporary storage

Caches, scratch processing space, temporary data storage

Persistent Disk

Google Cloud’s first generation enterprise-ready block storage for existing VM families

Analytics, databases, boot disks, SAP/HANA, Oracle, and virtual desktops

Block storage options for any workload

Pick the best block storage for your performance needs and budget.

Hyperdisk Throughput

Description

Massive scale and high-bandwidth storage

Best for

Scale-out analytics, data drives for cost-sensitive apps, cold disks

Hyperdisk Balanced

Description

General purpose volumes, comes with 3k IOPS baseline

Best for

Enterprise applications, databases, boot disks

Hyperdisk Extreme

Description

Guaranteed high-performance storage

Best for

SAP HANA, SQL Server, Oracle DBs

Hyperdisk Storage Pools

Description

Manage Hyperdisk capacity and performance in aggregate, with thin-provisioning and data reduction

Best for

Simplified block storage management, lower TCO, and increased efficiency

Local SSD

Description

Low latency, high-performance temporary storage

Best for

Caches, scratch processing space, temporary data storage

Persistent Disk

Description

Google Cloud’s first generation enterprise-ready block storage for existing VM families

Best for

Analytics, databases, boot disks, SAP/HANA, Oracle, and virtual desktops

How It Works

Hyperdisk is built on Titanium, which is a next-generation, tiered offload architecture. Titanium is a system of purpose-built, custom, silicon, security microcontrollers, and tiered scale-out offloads, which improve infrastructure performance, life cycle management, reliability, and security.

Titanium underpins Google Cloud’s latest compute instance types (C3, A3, H3), Hyperdisk block storage, networking, and more and is available at no additional cost.


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Titanium scale-out offload tier that distributes I/O across Google’s massive cluster-level filesystem

Common Uses

Benefit from the highest performance for SAP HANA and SQL Server

Use Hyperdisk Extreme for workloads with the highest performance need

Google Cloud Hyperdisk is the next-generation of block storage for Compute Engine. It offloads and dynamically scales out storage processing, enabling substantially higher performance, flexibility, and efficiency. With Hyperdisk Extreme, you can take advantage of this new technology to run workloads like SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server with the fastest single volume performance in the cloud.

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Use Hyperdisk Extreme for workloads with the highest performance need

Google Cloud Hyperdisk is the next-generation of block storage for Compute Engine. It offloads and dynamically scales out storage processing, enabling substantially higher performance, flexibility, and efficiency. With Hyperdisk Extreme, you can take advantage of this new technology to run workloads like SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server with the fastest single volume performance in the cloud.

Start using Hyperdisk Extreme

Lower your TCO and increase efficiency with Hyperdisk Storage Pools

Use thin-provisioning and data reduction to lower your TCO

Hyperdisk Storage Pools enable you to purchase and manage capacity and performance in aggregate, making it even easier to plan and manage your workloads. With Storage Pools you purchase the total capacity and performance your workloads will need, then provision Hyperdisk volumes as normal. You only consume the Pool capacity as you write data, enabling you to increase efficiency and lower TCO.
Learn more about Storage Pools

Use thin-provisioning and data reduction to lower your TCO

Hyperdisk Storage Pools enable you to purchase and manage capacity and performance in aggregate, making it even easier to plan and manage your workloads. With Storage Pools you purchase the total capacity and performance your workloads will need, then provision Hyperdisk volumes as normal. You only consume the Pool capacity as you write data, enabling you to increase efficiency and lower TCO.
Learn more about Storage Pools

See TCO savings of up to 40% with Kafka and Hadoop

Use Hyperdisk Throughput for scale-out analytics workloads

Hyperdisk Throughput offers up to 3 GB/s of throughput with full read/write parity, 7.5x higher write throughput, and 2.5x higher read throughput compared to Standard PD. This level of performance allows you to effectively run your scale-out analytics workloads, such as Hadoop and Kafka.

Start using Hyperdisk Throughput

Use Hyperdisk Throughput for scale-out analytics workloads

Hyperdisk Throughput offers up to 3 GB/s of throughput with full read/write parity, 7.5x higher write throughput, and 2.5x higher read throughput compared to Standard PD. This level of performance allows you to effectively run your scale-out analytics workloads, such as Hadoop and Kafka.

Start using Hyperdisk Throughput

Choose low latency ephemeral storage for AI/ML

Use Local SSD for AI and machine learning workloads to download and process data

For AI/ML training and serving that need high performance, low latency temporary storage, using Local solid-state drive (Local SSD) disks. Local SSD disks offer superior IOPS, and very low latency.

Learn more about Local SSD for AI workloads

Use Local SSD for AI and machine learning workloads to download and process data

For AI/ML training and serving that need high performance, low latency temporary storage, using Local solid-state drive (Local SSD) disks. Local SSD disks offer superior IOPS, and very low latency.

Learn more about Local SSD for AI workloads

Run PostgresSQL, MySQL, and modern databases

Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud, while lowering your TCO

Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud. Hyperdisk lets you provision the capacity and performance you need, while serving the most demanding workloads.

Learn more about Hyperdisk Balanced for database workloads

    Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud, while lowering your TCO

    Modernize and scale your databases in the cloud. Hyperdisk lets you provision the capacity and performance you need, while serving the most demanding workloads.

    Learn more about Hyperdisk Balanced for database workloads

      Modernize virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and IT infrastructure

      Deliver virtual desktops, servers, and IT infrastructure across the globe while lowering TCO.

      Leverage the scale and flexibility of the cloud to deliver desktops and IT as a service.

      See Hyperdisk options

      Deliver virtual desktops, servers, and IT infrastructure across the globe while lowering TCO.

      Leverage the scale and flexibility of the cloud to deliver desktops and IT as a service.

      See Hyperdisk options

      Configure a workload-level business continuity and data protection strategy

      Protect your data and ensure your workloads are highly available

      Ensure your data is protected using Instant Snapshots. Avoid outages by ensuring your data is available across zones and regions with Replication and Regional Disks.

      Learn more about Instant Snapshots

      Protect your data and ensure your workloads are highly available

      Ensure your data is protected using Instant Snapshots. Avoid outages by ensuring your data is available across zones and regions with Replication and Regional Disks.

      Learn more about Instant Snapshots

      Pricing

      Block storage pricingPricing for Hyperdisk is based on provisioned capacity, throughput, and IOPS, standalone or in a Storage Pool with Advanced Capacity. Data protection products are priced on capacity and network charges.
      Category / typeDescriptionPrice (us-central1)

      Hyperdisk Throughput

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      Standalone: $0.005

      Advanced Pool: $0.009

      Throughput, MB/s provisioned

      $0.250

      Hyperdisk Balanced

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      Standalone: $0.080

      Advanced Pool: $0.14

      Throughput, MB/s provisioned

      $0.040

      IOPS, per IOPS provisioned

      $0.005

      Hyperdisk Extreme

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      $0.125

      IOPS, per IOPS provisioned

      $0.032

      Local SSD

      Provisioned capacity

      $0.036

      Persistent Disk Standard

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      $0.04

      Persistent Disk Balanced

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      $0.1

      Persistent Disk SSD

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      $0.17

      Persistent Disk Extreme

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      $0.125

      IOPS, per IOPS provisioned

      $0.064

      Snapshots

      Standard snapshot storage, GB provisioned

      $0.065

      Archive snapshot storage, GB provisioned

      $0.019

      Archive snapshot retrieval, GB retrieved

      $0.019

      Regional Persistent Disk

      Regional capacity, GB provisioned

      $0.08

      Asynchronous Persistent Disk

      Asynchronous Replication Protection, GB provisioned

      $0.04

      Asynchronous Replication Networking, GiB

      $0.02

      All prices are for the Iowa (us-central1) region. For more detailed pricing information, please view the pricing guide.

      Block storage pricing

      Pricing for Hyperdisk is based on provisioned capacity, throughput, and IOPS, standalone or in a Storage Pool with Advanced Capacity. Data protection products are priced on capacity and network charges.

      Hyperdisk Throughput

      Description

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      Standalone: $0.005

      Advanced Pool: $0.009

      Throughput, MB/s provisioned

      Description

      $0.250

      Hyperdisk Balanced

      Description

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      Standalone: $0.080

      Advanced Pool: $0.14

      Throughput, MB/s provisioned

      Description

      $0.040

      IOPS, per IOPS provisioned

      Description

      $0.005

      Hyperdisk Extreme

      Description

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      $0.125

      IOPS, per IOPS provisioned

      Description

      $0.032

      Local SSD

      Description

      Provisioned capacity

      Price (us-central1)

      $0.036

      Persistent Disk Standard

      Description

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      $0.04

      Persistent Disk Balanced

      Description

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      $0.1

      Persistent Disk SSD

      Description

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      $0.17

      Persistent Disk Extreme

      Description

      Capacity, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      $0.125

      IOPS, per IOPS provisioned

      Description

      $0.064

      Snapshots

      Description

      Standard snapshot storage, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      $0.065

      Archive snapshot storage, GB provisioned

      Description

      $0.019

      Archive snapshot retrieval, GB retrieved

      Description

      $0.019

      Regional Persistent Disk

      Description

      Regional capacity, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      $0.08

      Asynchronous Persistent Disk

      Description

      Asynchronous Replication Protection, GB provisioned

      Price (us-central1)

      $0.04

      Asynchronous Replication Networking, GiB

      Description

      $0.02

      All prices are for the Iowa (us-central1) region. For more detailed pricing information, please view the pricing guide.

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