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Backblaze compared to Amazon S3

Backblaze
Versus
Amazon S3

Features

Storage Features of Backblaze compared to Amazon S3
BackblazeFeaturesAmazon S3
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, CLI, REST api
Event hooks/pubsub
SLABest effort. Credits below 99.9%. That is 43 minutes of downtime allowed per month without having to issue credits
10 TBMaximum object filesize5 TB
Minimum object filesizeA 0 byte file has 8 KB of chargeable overhead for metadata.
Recommended max file count per bucketunlimited
unlimitedMax filesize for a bucketunlimited
unlimited. Backblaze doesn’t operate with ‘folders’, it just pretends to do so.Maximum amount of buckets500 - upgradable if you need it.
Logs
Authentication / ACLAmazon has designed their very own PreSigned URL mechanism which is now used globally across providers
Direct integration with Cloudflare CDNCDN integrationS3 integrates seamlessly into Amazon’s CloudFront CDN, as well as other CDNs
Peering & interconnect
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

Backblaze

Backblaze’s amazing story on how they pivoted their business to Storage Pods is a recommended read for sure.

Backblaze offers two products:

  • B2 Cloud Storage: An object storage service similar to Amazon’s S3.
  • Computer Backup: An online backup tool that allows Windows and macOS users to back up their data to offsite data centers.

Their pricing is competitive and publicly listed.

We have only listed the features of the b12 Cloud Storage solution, to make sure all providers on this site can be evenly compared.

Amazon S3

World’s biggest Cloud Storage Provider. Amazon, traditionally an online book store, has put a target on the cloud compute space when it shifted its focus to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006. E-Commerce competition was tough, but public cloud companies back then were scarce, and usability and user friendly products were a long way from being invented.

Amazon’s reign on cloud computing has left its mark in public cloud-land. Competitors have trouble keeping up, if they even get to a point of feature-parity at all. With Amazon’s S3 storage being one of the first, it has basically dictated a standard for the public cloud’s blob storage protocol.

Needless to say, Amazon invented the S3 (Simple Storage Service) standard.

Comparisons