Lowest Cost Data Analytics at Scale

Priced to suit your cloud needs

Running data analytics in the cloud can be surprisingly expensive. Analyst firm Gartner predicts that by 2022, 75 percent of organizations using cloud data management systems will experience budget overruns. Let us help you better understand the actual cloud data analytics costs, what pricing works best for your business, and how to avoid surprises.

Top 6 factors for success in the cloud

Learn how to choose the right data analytics solution in the cloud based on these 6 factors for success.

Estimate future budgets based on your workloads

Estimate future budgets based on your workloads

To estimate your actual budget requirements, look at your production use cases that show workloads at scale.

Get expert guidance when migrating to the cloud

Get expert guidance when migrating to the cloud

Don’t listen to claims that migrating to the cloud is simple—it’s a complex process that can drive budget overruns.

Avoid unexpected costs and keep your projects alive

Avoid unexpected costs and keep your projects alive

As user demand changes, automatic scaling can deliver an unexpected bill that can kill your project and your reputation.

Meet service level goals with software first

Meet service level goals with software first

You need mature software that can be optimized to meet service level goals without the incremental cost of compute resources.

Demand flexible cloud pricing

Demand flexible cloud pricing 

Flexible pricing will enable you to manage your costs and meet the needs of ever-changing user demand. 

Measure price-performance

Measure price-performance

Look for lowest cost per query. Vendors deliver multiple different metrics to make their solutions look the most attractive.

Flexible. Affordable. Transparent.

Learn about Teradata’s flexible pricing and how it can help you get the most value out of your data. 

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Wherever you are on your cloud journey, these pricing options are designed to fit the data demands of your organization.

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Lowest cost at scale

Starting at $5 per hour compute, and 19 cents per terabyte per hour storage, Teradata Vantage offers refreshingly affordable cloud pricing—no matter what you require from your data analytics in the cloud.

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per hour
compute
 19¢ 
per terabyte
per hour storage

Surprises only work for birthday parties

Initial startup savings of cloud-only data warehouses can quickly devolve into unexpected—and unwelcome—cost spikes at scale. 

Discover why costs balloon with cloud-only data warehouses

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Teradata simplifies cloud data analytics costs,
delivering lowest cost at scale

The ability for Teradata customers to choose the most appropriate pricing for each data analytic workload facilitates financial guardrails and improves your organization’s return on investment.

Blended Pricing means there’s no billing surprises or sticker shock, while Consumption Pricing means there’s complete freedom to only pay for what is used.

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Is a cloud-only pricing model really
as cost-effective as promised?

In this side-by-side comparison, the difference between Vantage and the competition is clear. Only Vantage offers the choice, truly predictable and transparent pricing, and elasticity your needs, PLUS the lowest pricing at scale. 

What do you want your data analytics platform to do? Cloud-Only
Data Warehouse
Teradata Vantage
Get started quickly without ongoing obligation    
Start small and grow    
Seamlessly allocate user costs by department (chargeback)    
Scale compute as little as needed in small steps    
Choice of pricing models for different workloads    
Lowest cost at scale    
Pay only for what you need with granular scalability    
Only pay for queries, loading, and storage    
Enjoy predictable pricing without billing surprises    
Enjoy automatic elasticity and never worry about system size    
Reuse prior on-premises investments and IP for new deployments    

Get started quickly without ongoing obligation

Cloud-only: Start quickly without ongoing financial obligation
Vantage: Start quickly without ongoing financial obligation

Start small and grow

Cloud-only: Can start small and scale to a mid-size system
Vantage: Can start small and scale to an enterprise-size system

Seamlessly allocate user costs by department (chargeback)

Cloud-only: Multiple systems may be needed to separate costs
Vantage: All users can be on the same system with full transparency for chargebacks

Scale compute as little as needed in small steps

Cloud-only: Scale only in increasingly bigger steps which are often larger than needed
Vantage: Scale incrementally based on usage to avoid unused resources

Choice of pricing models for different workloads

Cloud-only: Limited to pay-as-you-go pricing
Vantage: Flexible choice: Blended Pricing (reserved) and Consumption Pricing (pay-as-you-go)

Lowest cost at scale

Cloud-only: Cost per query rises dramatically as query volume increases
Vantage: Cost per query remains low as query volume increases

Pay only for what you need with granular scalability

Cloud-only: Pay for what is provisioned, even if much larger than needed
Vantage: Pay only for what you use with granular scaling

Only pay for queries, loading, and storage

Cloud-only: Pay for what is provisioned, even if unused and too large
Vantage: Only pay for resources actually used (Consumption Pricing)

Enjoy predictable pricing without billing surprises

Cloud-only: Cost “surprises” after discovering how much automatic scaling costs
Vantage: Sleep well knowing that costs remain bounded by financial guardrails (Blended Pricing)

Enjoy automatic elasticity and never worry about system size

Cloud-only: Guess at the maximum size you might need for automatic scaling
Vantage: Allows Teradata to monitor and automatically adjust system size for you based on usage (Consumption Pricing)

Reuse prior on-premises investments and IP for new deployments

Cloud-only: Start over, recode, and retrain just to get to your previous baseline
Vantage: Gain positive ROI from Day 1 with your current data and tools

Analysts, experts, and the real costs
of cloud data analytics

We’re not the only ones talking about transparent cloud pricing and the prevalence of “gotchas” in the industry.

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