There are some limits to the B2 offering Backblaze doesn't have the multiple datacenter regions that Amazon and others offer, having only a single datacenter in California. The company envisages it being used as, for example, a low-cost replica to act as an independent backup for data hosted in S3 or Azure, or even the underlying storage for an online backup service or something along the lines of Dropbox. For large-scale storage applications, B2 may well be affordable in a way that S3 and Azure, at more than four times the price, simply aren't. Advertisementīackblaze believes that this low price could be transformational. Bandwidth costs are the same inbound bandwidth is free, outbound is charged at 5¢ per gigabyte. This is cheaper even than Amazon's Glacier and Google's Nearline storage, at 0.7 and 1¢ per gigabyte per month, respectively, neither of which supports immediate access to data. Backblaze's B2 storage costs 0.5¢ per gigabyte per month, with the first 10GB free. Amazon S3's cheapest online storage-reduced redundancy, for customers storing more than 5 petabytes-costs 2.2¢ per gigabyte per month. Its new B2 product is very much in the same vein as Amazon's S3: cloud storage with an API that can be used to build a range of other applications. Now the company plans to sell that same cheap storage to developers. This low-cost storage means that the company can offer its $5/month unlimited size backup plan profitably. It currently has more than 150 petabytes of storage. Backblaze has designed (and documented) its storage hardware for the lowest possible cost, using software to provide the necessary protection against failures. We've written about the company's hard disk reliability data a few times over the years the company has found that regular consumer hard drives are more than up to the demands of providing cloud storage, though there is substantial variation between the different manufacturers and models.

But where those services charge 2¢ or more per gigabyte per month, Backblaze is pricing its service at just half a cent per gigabyte per month.īackblaze's business is cheap storage. Online backup provider Backblaze is branching out today with a new business: an infrastructure-as-a-service-style cloud storage API that's going head to head with Amazon's S3, Microsoft's Azure, and Google Cloud Storage.

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