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Performance & Cost

Exoscale resources are billed by the second. The services you run should reflect what your workload genuinely needs — both now and as it evolves. Before committing to a setup, the pricing calculator lets you model any combination of services across compute, storage, databases, networking, and support plans.

Is your setup sized for what you actually need?

The most common avoidable inefficiency on any cloud platform is capacity provisioned at launch that is never revisited. A reasonable starting point, observed under real conditions and then adjusted, is more reliable than an estimate made upfront.

Exoscale supports scaling instances and scaling DBaaS plans without rebuilding from scratch. For workloads with variable traffic, Instance Pools paired with the Network Load Balancer let capacity follow demand automatically. For containerised workloads, SKS node pool autoscaling does the same.

Are you using the right storage for each purpose?

Block Storage is for data your instances actively read and write — OS volumes, live database files. Object Storage (SOS) is for everything else: backups, logs, exports, and static assets. SOS is S3-compatible and supports cross-zone replication for resilience.

One thing worth noting: SOS objects accumulate until explicitly removed. Lifecycle rules let you define retention policies that handle cleanup automatically, which is much more reliable than doing it by hand.

Can you see how your resources are being used?

Without consistent labels across your resources, attributing usage to a team, project, or environment becomes guesswork. This is straightforward to establish from the start and genuinely difficult to retrofit at scale.

Usage Reports give you per-resource consumption data. Reviewing them periodically helps catch unexpected growth early. For a more detailed look at what is running and where, the Audit Trail records all API-level activity across your organisation.

Going deeper

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