Enterprise cloud backup — paid in manat by bank transfer

Reliable cloud storage for backups exists and costs very little — but buying it in Azerbaijan under corporate or public-procurement rules is next to impossible: payment in dollars by card only, with no contract, no act, no VAT invoice. Accounting and the tender department hit a wall, and the company is left with a bad choice: keep everything on its own servers (expensive and high-maintenance — see below), or run with no real backup at all. We turn a global cloud service into something you can actually procure: contract, bank transfer, manat, closing documents — and a backup that works.

Payment in manat by bank transfer — contract, invoice, acceptance act, VAT invoice; fits corporate and government procurement procedures. World-class global storage — S3-compatible, Veeam-compatible, with support for immutable backups against ransomware. Encryption of your data before upload (the storage provider sees only ciphertext). Archiving — retention policies and long-term archives configured for you. Monitoring — we make sure backups are actually taken and restorable, not just sitting there. In-country contour in Azerbaijan — a VDS for the data and software that must stay inside the country.

This is the key question to ask before you buy a rack full of disks. Let's compare honestly — cloud storage as a service against your own storage servers:

Factor	Your own storage servers	Cloud as a service (through us)
Upfront investment	A major purchase: servers, disks, networking, UPS	None; you pay for usage
Hardware replacement	Disks fail, and every 3–5 years it's a new purchase	Handled on the provider's side
Headroom "for growth"	You buy with spare capacity and pay for idle storage	Scale on demand, no paying for idle
Power, cooling, floor space	24/7 costs for power, cooling, rack space	None
Staff	You need admins, monitoring, on-call coverage	We run operations and monitoring
Resilience	One server room = one point of failure (fire, flood, theft)	World-class geo-distributed storage
Off-site by default	A copy in the same building isn't real off-site	Storage physically off your premises
Ransomware protection	Immutability is hard to get right	Immutable backups out of the box
Time to launch	Procurement + installation + setup — weeks	Days

The plain conclusion: for most companies, your own storage servers are expensive, slow to stand up, and dependent on people you have to hire and keep. The cloud removes the capital outlay, the hardware maintenance, and the single-point-of-failure risk. But this isn't dogma — where your own servers still make sense, we'll say so plainly (see below).

Placement decides which data requirements you satisfy, so we're upfront:

• Global cloud — data is stored in the provider's data centers abroad, but it's encrypted before upload: the provider sees only the encrypted set and can't read the contents. Cheap, immutable, geo-distributed.
• VDS in Azerbaijan — for data and software that, by law or policy, must stay inside the country. Here the data is physically in-country.

Which contour (or combination) you need is something we determine from your data requirements during a free assessment.

Backups are the first target of modern attacks, so we make the off-site copy immutable: for a set period it can't be overwritten or deleted. That's working protection against ransomware under the 3-2-1-1-0 rule — see the full breakdown in "Protecting backups from ransomware".

We work the "10% Path" way: first a free assessment — how much data, which contour (global cloud or VDS in Azerbaijan), where encryption is needed, and which archiving policies. Then we lock in the price and connect you. Payment is in manat by bank transfer, with the full package of closing documents. Pricing is calculated against your data volume and availability requirements.

Price guideline for the global cloud contour: from ≈30 ₼ per terabyte per month — all taxes already included. For comparison, the same storage in hyperscale-cloud form (Amazon S3 class) costs several times more per terabyte. The exact quote for your volume, archiving policy and contour is fixed at the free assessment.

The cloud isn't a universal answer. Your own storage servers make sense if: you have a very large, stable data volume with your own data center and staff; you need the fastest possible access to huge datasets without network latency; or you have a hard requirement that all hardware be under your own physical control. And one honest caveat about the cloud: pulling hundreds of terabytes back over the network takes hours or days, so for fast recovery it makes sense to keep a local copy as well. Which option is cheaper for you specifically is something we calculate at the assessment — no canned "the cloud is always better" answer.

A government body needs reliable backup, but its accounting department can't pay a foreign service by card in dollars — it needs a contract, bank transfer, and closing documents. Here's how we usually handle it: assess the volume and data requirements → choose the contour (global cloud with encryption and/or VDS in Azerbaijan) → configure encryption, immutable backups, and archiving policies → contract and payment in manat by bank transfer → monitoring and regular restore testing. The goal is to satisfy both the procurement rules and the backup task itself.

• How is this better than just buying the cloud directly? Bought directly, the global cloud is paid in dollars by card — which doesn't pass corporate or public-procurement rules. We give you the same storage paid in manat by bank transfer with closing documents, and we take on encryption, archiving, and monitoring.
• Where does the data physically live? It depends on the contour. The global cloud is abroad, but encrypted before upload (the provider sees only ciphertext). A VDS in Azerbaijan keeps the data physically in-country. We tailor it to your requirements.
• Is it cheaper than running your own servers? For most, yes: no hardware purchase, no disk replacements, no cooling, no dedicated admins. But for very large, stable volumes with your own data center it can be different — we'll do the math honestly.
• Who can see our data? No one but you: data is encrypted before upload and the keys are yours. The storage holds only the encrypted set — zero-knowledge encryption.
• Does this protect against ransomware? Yes — we make the off-site copy immutable, so it can't be overwritten or deleted for the set period. That's the core of protection under the 3-2-1-1-0 rule.
• What documents does accounting get? Contract, invoice, acceptance act, VAT invoice — the full package for bank-transfer payment in manat.