> Reducing the download cost is an attempt to get more people to see B2 as an S3 replacement, right? B2's download cost was already cheaper than AWS for everyo

> Reducing the download cost is an attempt to get more people to see B2 as an S3 replacement, right? B2's download cost was already cheaper than AWS for everyone but the largest customers but I expect a little guy has to try harder. I think something that has contributed to seeing B2 as mainly for backup, aside from it being a service of a backup company, is greater emphasis on durability rather than availability. And looking at web pages now, B2's availability SLA is 99.9% [0] while S3's is 99.99% [1] (S3 Infrequent Access is 99.9%). [0] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html [1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/