# We're Cutting Storage Costs (Automatically)

DevFeed: [We're Cutting Storage Costs (Automatically)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/we-re-cutting-storage-costs-automatically-5159.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/cutting-storage-costs>)

Author: Anna Stepanyan

Published: 2024-11-21T00:26:43Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Cache](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cache.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [Azure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure.md>)

Tags: [amazon-s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-s3.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [azure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/azure.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [cloud-storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-storage.md>), [company](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/company.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [ssd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssd.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

## AI overview

Neon is reducing storage costs for inactive database branches automatically. Branches that have been idle for at least one day and are older than two weeks are archived by evicting their data from the Pageserver's high-performance SSD cache while retaining it in durable cloud object storage such as Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage. When accessed again, a branch is automatically reactivated, with a small first-query delay while its data is reloaded into the cache.

## Source excerpt

Starting December 1st, many Neon users will see lower storage costs. Inactive branches--those idle for at least a day and older than 2 weeks--will now be charged at a reduced per-GB rate. If this applies to you, there's nothing you need to do--it all happens automatically. Simply en...