Snapshots

Freeze the machine before you change it.

Manual point-in-time images of your Cloud Compute instances. Capture before upgrades, clone for staging, restore when a change goes wrong.

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What you get

On demand

You decide when to capture, not a fixed schedule.

Pre-change checkpoints

Snapshot before OS upgrades, big deploys, or risky config changes.

Clone & restore

Spin a copy for staging or roll back the source instance.

You control retention

Keep snapshots until you delete them.

From config to live

Pick the instance

Choose the Compute instance to capture.

Create snapshot

Name it and confirm. Status shows when ready.

Restore or clone

Recover the source or launch a new instance from the image.

Snapshot pricing

Snapshots carry no schedule fee. You pay for the size you keep, for as long as you keep it.

ItemPrice
Snapshot stored$0.05/GB·mo

Prices from the Optidata console catalog · Miami, US (US1) · USD · updated Jul 30, 2026.

Get started

Checkpoint before the risky change

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