Origin Cloud Storage provides durable block volumes for your instances and point-in-time snapshots of those volumes. A volume is a disk that keeps its data independently of any instance. A snapshot captures a volume’s data so you can create new volumes or images from it. Most instances get their volumes automatically from their image at launch; this guide covers volumes and snapshots as resources you manage yourself.
How the parts fit together
The following diagram shows how data moves between volumes, snapshots, and images, and how an imported disk image becomes a volume.
A snapshot becomes usable as a source only after you protect it. For the rules, see Snapshot states.
Features
Volumes
Durable block disks that you create, import, resize, attach to instances, and delete. See Volumes.
Storage classes
Performance tiers for volumes. gp1 (general purpose, SSD-backed) is the tier you can select. See Storage classes.
Snapshots
Point-in-time, crash-consistent copies of a volume, used as the source for new volumes and images. See Snapshots.
Disk image import
Create a volume whose initial content is a disk image you download from an HTTP(S) URL. See Import a disk image as a volume.
Ways to access Storage
Origin CLI
The origin storage command group covers volumes, storage classes, and snapshots. See origin storage commands.
GraphQL API
Volumes, snapshots, and storage classes live under the pvs namespace of the API. See Storage reference.
For installing the CLI and authenticating, see Access Origin Cloud.
Related services
- Instance storage – how an instance’s own volumes are created at launch.
- Attach and detach volumes – connect a volume you created to an instance.
- Create an image – turn a protected snapshot into an image you can launch instances from.
- Pricing – how volumes and snapshots are billed.
On origincloud.eu
Persistent Volume Storage describes the service itself, and Volume rates what it costs.