From a cost of goods sold perspective, AWS pricing wasn’t a great fit. Backblaze was a drop-in API replacement with a much better cost structure—it was just a no-brainer.
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Amazon S3 Standard object storage
Storage Type
Hot
Hot
Enterprise-grade security available (including SSE, Object Lock, replication)
Compliance compatible (including HIPAA, PCI-DSS friendly)
Supports ranging use cases (i.e., application storage, backup & recovery, active media archive)
Pay-as-you-go storage pricing
$6/TB/mo.
Starting $26/TB/mo.
Annual capacity-based bundles available
Starts at $1,560 per 20TB/yr.
Includes:
Upload (PUT) fees
$0.0055 per 1,000 requests
Lifecycle rule fees
Retrieval fees
Egress fees
Free up to 3x total monthly storage, additional at $0.01/GB
(Also free unlimited to many CDN and Compute partners)
Starts at $0.09/GB including egress to other AWS regions
Minimum storage duration fees
Small object fees
Small file fees
Data migration
$0 for >50TB committed contract
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Co-Founder & CTO, Tribute
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Backblaze B2 offers all customers free egress up to 3x your monthly average storage amount, with any egress above this amount billed a simple $0.01/GB. What’s more, Backblaze B2 offers unlimited free egress via a number of Backblaze CDN and Compute technology partners including Fastly, Cloudflare, and Vultr. Amazon S3 Standard customers receive 100GB of data transfer out to the internet free each month, aggregated across all AWS services and regions except China and GovCloud. You can incur fees for moving data to other AWS services. Also, rates can vary by region and amount of data moved so you’ll want to do your diligence based on your use case and needs.
Yes, Backblaze offers Universal Data Migration to support data migration from a range of sources, including cloud-to-cloud migration from Amazon S3 Standard storage.
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage customers can enjoy free Universal Data Migration–yes, we really do take on the data transfer and egress fees–for inbound migrations on >50TB committed pay-as-you-go contracts and all B2 Reserve capacity bundles.
Yes, Backblaze B2 integrates seamlessly with thousands of hardware and software tools, likely including those you use in your workflow. Some examples of our Alliance Partners are Veeam, MSP360, Arq, rclone, Commvault, Veritas, iconik, LucidLink, Synology, Fastly, and Vultr. You can find a more extensive list of tested integrations here; and many more will work seamlessly with Backblaze B2 given its S3 compatibility.
The Backblaze B2 Storage Cloud is architected and designed with data security in mind. The key pillars of our security framework are enterprise-grade access management security, data storage security, and architecture & physical security. These include a wide range of administrative and technical controls, implemented at the enterprise, business process, and system levels, and attestations—so whether you’re seeking a platform designed to 11 nines of durability, encryption options, immutability, SOC 2 compliance, data replication, or just peace of mind, Backblaze is built for you.
All Backblaze B2 customers receive free support that includes documentation, knowledge base articles, and email & chat support from real, nice humans. B2 Reserve capacity bundle customers automatically receive premium support with a 4 business-hour response time SLA; pay-as-you-go service customers can purchase premium support for personalized assistance and/or a tighter response SLA–details here.
Vendor lock-in is a situation in which a customer becomes dependent on a service provider such that it is difficult for them to switch to a different service provider without significant switching cost. Backblaze B2 avoids this by taking an open approach that works with ranging tech stacks and vendors, thereby allowing for easier, flexible workflow integration.
