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Backblaze compared to Digital Ocean Spaces

Backblaze
Versus
Digital Ocean Spaces

Features

Storage Features of Backblaze compared to Digital Ocean Spaces
BackblazeFeaturesDigital Ocean Spaces
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal, REST api
Event hooks/pubsub
SLA
10 TBMaximum object filesize250 GB
Minimum object filesizeFiles smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces.
Recommended max file count per bucketunlimited
unlimitedMax filesize for a bucket250 GB
unlimited. Backblaze doesn’t operate with ‘folders’, it just pretends to do so.Maximum amount of bucketsunlimited. Note that a price is calculated per ‘Space’.
Logs
Authentication / ACL
Direct integration with Cloudflare CDNCDN integrationSpaces leverages Digital Ocean’s built in CDN, which is a mix of two CDNs depending on the region your traffic is served
Peering & interconnectCenturylink is the backbone provider for large parts of the globe
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.

Digital Ocean Spaces

Digital Ocean is one of the few companies that grew over time and actually made it to the champions leage of Cloud Hosting Providers. It’s only logical DO should offer an object storage solution.

Digital Ocean has established itself over the years as being developer friendly, posting an abundance of useful Sysadmin/developer articles. The value and quality of their blog closely represents their product, which is clean, has good concise documentation, and works great.

Their clients include InfluxDB and Edge Compute company Section; (see our srvrlss profile on them).

Comparisons