Currently, all of your application workloads store their data on a NetApp AFF cluster.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP is a software-defined storage solution that runs on top of cloud infrastructure and provides advanced data management features for file and block workloads. It allows you to move your application workloads to the public cloud and maintain NetApp ONTAP data efficiencies. A PAYGO subscription lets you pay for the storage resources you consume on an hourly basis, which gives you a flexible payment option as you scale your public cloud footprint12.