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 up 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. The status indicates when the snapshot is ready.

Restore or clone

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

Short answers

Optidata Snapshots are manual point-in-time images of a Cloud Compute instance, taken before an upgrade or deploy and kept until you delete them, billed at $0.05 per GB-month. Scheduled, automatic protection is the separate Backup product. Prices as of Oct 6, 2026, Miami (US1), USD.

Get started

Checkpoint before the risky change

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