23 days ago
Hi Railway team and community,
I have a question about how Railway calculates project storage limits and billing for Database volumes vs Storage Buckets.
Situation:
- I have a Railway project with PostgreSQL database
- I exported records from database to Railway Storage Bucket
- After exporting and deleting data from database, my project total volume hasn't changed
Question:
1. Do Railway Database storage and Storage Bucket storage count towards the same project storage quota?
2. Are they billed the same way (same price per GB)?
3. Or are Database and Storage Bucket separate storage pools with separate limits/billing?
What I observed:
- Exported database data to Storage Bucket successfully
- Deleted data from database
- Project total volume remained unchanged
Expected clarification:
- If they share the same quota: Moving data from DB to Bucket shouldn't change total volume (makes sense)
- If they're separate: I'd expect to see some change, or at least understand how each is counted
Thanks for clarifying how project storage is calculated and billed!
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23 days ago
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23 days ago
IIRC buckets currently don't have billing yet, so the amount of storage used in a bucket should not be part of what you're using/being billed for.
As for volume storage, the used space will only decrease if the data within the volume is properly deleted.
Edit: wrong info