Downloads cost $0.05/GB, with the first 1GB/day being free.īackblaze CEO Gleb Budman tells me that the company saw a variety of use cases during the beta, with users ranging from large enterprises wanting to shut down their own data centers to individual users who only wanted to store a few files. Backblaze charges $0.005/GB/month for storage and the first 10GB/month are free. The main differentiator for B2 is its price, of course. Pricing for this starts at $99 for snapshots up to 110GB in size and $189 for snapshots up to 3.5TB. Other features of Backblaze’s storage service include the ability to have the company send you snapshots of your files by FedEx on a USB hard drive or flash drive (depending on how much data you need to move). The B2 service is also now backed by a 99.9% SLA.

The company is currently using the sixth major revision of its storage servers, which also form the basis of the B2 service. Given Backblaze’s stats, very few users apparently took the company up on this offer, but that’s still twice as large as what Amazon‘s S3 service allows.īackblaze learned quite a bit about running an efficient storage operation from its backup service, which offers unlimited backups for $5 month for personal users. B2 allows its users to upload files that can be up to 10TB in size. In total, the stored more than 125 million files worth 525TB of data. A number of partners, including Synology, Cloudberry, OpenIO and Cubix, also today announced that they will now offer B2 as a storage option for their customers.īackblaze says more than 15,000 users signed up for the service since the private alpha launch last year.

Today, B2 is coming out of beta and ready for production use. While the company can’t compete with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google when it comes to the overall feature set of its nascent cloud platform, Backblaze decided to significantly undercut its competitors pricing when it first announced its B2 cloud storage service last September. Backblaze is still best known for its backup service, but the company has also set its sights on the fast-growing cloud storage market.

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