Backblaze is no longer just a backup company. It now also offers Backblaze B2—a full object storage cloud service, using the same DIY, Pod-based architecture.

The price undercuts Amazon S3 by almost an order of magnitude. But there’s no regional redundancy—your data is in California, whether you like it or not.

As is normal in this market, you pay for storage used, but also for data transfers out. So presumably, B2 doesn’t include the famously ultra-slow downloads of Backblaze’s classic service.

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