NetApp Keystone, Storage as a Service (STaas) | NetApp
True hybrid cloud STaaS
Speed time to value with unmatched agility and flexibility
Seize your advantage with Keystone’s pay-as-you-go, hybrid cloud storage services. Power all your block, file, and object workloads wherever you want them — on-prem, in colos, and natively in all three major public clouds. Accelerate and optimize your IT with the industry-leading performance, resiliency, and seamless hybrid data mobility of NetApp intelligent data infrastructure.
AI-optimized storage as a service—built for speed, scale, and simplicity
Remove barriers to entry and fast-track your AI journey with an AI-optimized architecture and integrated ONTAP data management features for scalable, secure AI operations—without the complexity and cost of traditional storage investments.
Unlock unprecedented flexibility
Align IT costs with business usage via pay-as-you-go storage. Optimize spend with the broadest range of scalable performance tiers and flexible 1-5 year terms. Save up to 50% via automated data tiering, adjust capacity or shift to the cloud by up to 25% annually, and burst to the cloud at no extra cost.
Sustainability guarantee
Minimize the impact of your carbon footprint and meet sustainability goals—guaranteed—with standard watts/TiB for each SLA-based performance level, automated data tiering, sustainability monitoring, and cancellation of overprovisioning, on premises and in the cloud.
Leave behind the cost and complexities of disruptive hardware refreshes
Reduce support and maintenance costs for storage by up to 30%. Free up IT teams to focus on business innovation, not day-to-day tasks.
Architect forward with real hybrid multicloud connectivity
As-a-service everywhere―monitor and orchestrate your hybrid data environment with a single pane of glass. You choose how, where, and when to use data services: on premises and in the cloud.
Cloud ready from the start
Bridge to the cloud with the ability to move to any major public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), seamlessly.
Quickly accommodate new workloads
No need to modify your entire infrastructure.
Respond faster to business changes
Move data, automatically, wherever you need it.
Stop paying for high-performance storage you don’t need
Save over 50% of capacity cost by automatically offloading unused cold data into cost-efficient cloud storage.
Burst storage on demand
No hidden costs for bursting to the cloud, and no premium charges for data changes.
Lower your rates
Flexible multi-year contracts enable you to reduce capacity or shift to the cloud by 25% annually.
Pay only for what you need
Align costs with usage by matching workloads to the broadest range of performance tiers available.
Keystone STaaS
delivers the right operating model for cloud flexibility
NetApp’s unstoppable momentum
In the same year Gartner® named NetApp a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Storage Platforms, we were recognized as a Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice. Now, we’re ranked #1 in Hybrid Cloud Storage in the Critical Capabilities report.
Transform Your Data Storage with NetApp Keystone® STaaS
Leader and Fast Mover in GigaOm's 2025 Sonar Report – Experience True Hybrid Cloud Integration, Cost Predictability, and AI-Driven Insights
Services Catalog
Keystone STaaS offerings are optimized for performance outcomes and costs for unified file and block, object storage, and cloud data services. It’s time to simplify our storage management and reap the benefits of NetApp innovation. Experience the ultimate on premises and cloud connector that delivers agility, operational flexibility, and reduced financial risk.
File, block, and object
| Service Level | Extreme | Premium | Standard | Value |
| Best for | Mission -critical workloads (analytics, databases) | T1 workloads (VDI, virtualized apps, sw dev) | T2 workloads (File shares, web servers) | Secondary storage, backup |
| Min commitment | File/Block - 50 TiB | File/Block - 50 TiB | File - 100 TiB
Object - 200 TiB |
File - 100 TiB
Object - 500 TiB |
| Capacity Increment | 25 TiB | 25 TiB | 25 TiB | File - 25 TiB
Object - 100 TiB |
| Protocols | File - FC, iSCSI, NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, NFS, NFSv4/RDMA, SMB, S3
Block - NVMe/TCP, NVMe/FC, FC, iSCSI Object - S3 |
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Cloud Services
| Service Level | Cloud Volumes ONTAP |
| Best for | DR, dev/test, business apps |
| Min committed capacity | 4 TiB |
| Capacity increment | 1 TiB |
| Protocols | NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, S3* (*AWS & Azure only) |
Easy as 1-2-3
Getting started with NetApp Keystone STaaS is easy. First, determine which workloads are best for a storage-as-a-service model. Next, select your performance levels, capacities, and add-on data services. And finally, choose your terms. Our team of specialists will take care of the design, build, and deploy, and have you up and running in as little as two weeks.
Build your Keystone roadmap for success
Start by identifying those use cases that will benefit from a storage-as-a-service offering. Need help planning your roadmap? Explore our portfolio of Professional Services for Hybrid Multicloud, and one of our specialists will help guide your success.
Hop on the Keystone train
With a solid plan in place, it’s time to subscribe to Keystone. Select your performance service levels and committed capacities, add-ons like advanced data protection and data tiering services, contract terms, and who will operate the environment—you, a certified partner, or us. NetApp offers a fully managed service for an additional monthly fee. Need help determining storage requirements for your various workloads? Request a Workload Analysis for Keystone workshop.
Lean on our expertise
Our team of NetApp specialists is here to provide design, build, installation, configuration, deployment, and onboarding services according to your contract terms. And we can migrate your data onto Keystone and put it on the same bill. We won’t leave until you're happy.
