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title: "Block Storage: Minimum Volume Size Now 1 GiB"
date: 2025-01-16
tags: ["New","Block Storage"]
url: https://changelog.exoscale.com/block-storage-minimum-volume-size-now-1-gib/
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# Block Storage: Minimum Volume Size Now 1 GiB

<div class="">We’ve reduced the minimum block storage volume size<b> from 10 GiB to 1 GiB</b>, simplifying smaller workloads, aligning with multi-cloud environments, and ensuring easier Kubernetes Helm Chart compatibility.</div><div class="medium-insert-images" style=""><figure class="">
    <img src="block-storage-minimum-volume-size-now-1-gib-image-01.png" alt="Image #1" loading="lazy">
        
</figure></div><p class=""><b style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33);" class="">Key highlights:</b></p><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">No immediate changes to billing; usage remains proportional to size (1 GiB -&gt; 1 GiB)</li><li class="">Seamless resizing possible from 1 GiB onward</li></ul></div>