Storage Cost Managment

Since there is a storage cost associated with the data in your projects, it is good practice to regularly check how much cost is being generated by your projects and evaluate which data can be removed from cloud storage. The instructions provided here will help you quickly determine which data is generating the highest storage costs.

Monitoring Storage Cost

To see how much storage costs are currently being generated for your tenant, you can look at the usage explorer at https://platform.illumina.com/usage/ or from within ICA, navigate to the 9-dot symbol () in the top right next to your name and choose the usage explorer from the menu.

From the usage explorer overview screen, you can see below the graphical representation which projects are incurring the highest storage costs.\

Project Files in ICA

When you have determined which projects are incurring the largest storage costs, you can find out which files within that project are taking up the most space. To find the largest files in your project,

1. Go to Projects > your_project > Data and switch to list view with the () icon left above your files.

2. Use the column icon () top right to add the size column to your view. You can drag the size column to the desired position in your list view or use the move left and use right options which appear when you select the three vertical dots.

3. Select Sort descending to show the largest files first.

1. Once you have the list sorted like this, you can evaluate if those large files are still needed, if the can be sent to archive (manage > archive) or if they can be deleted (manage > delete).