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Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Backblaze

Digital Ocean Spaces
Versus
Backblaze

Features

Storage Features of Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Backblaze
Digital Ocean SpacesFeaturesBackblaze
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
250 GBMaximum object filesize10 TB
Files smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces.Minimum object filesize
unlimitedRecommended max file count per bucket
250 GBMax filesize for a bucketunlimited
unlimited. Note that a price is calculated per ‘Space’.Maximum amount of bucketsunlimited. Backblaze doesn’t operate with ‘folders’, it just pretends to do so.
Logs
Authentication / ACL
Spaces leverages Digital Ocean’s built in CDN, which is a mix of two CDNs depending on the region your traffic is servedCDN integrationDirect integration with Cloudflare CDN
Centurylink is the backbone provider for large parts of the globePeering & interconnect
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

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).

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.

Comparisons