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Thanks, I was looking for this type of feedback. The pricing comparison is still interesting. Could you do a summary of your evaluation for others that didn't

by Aissen 8y ago

Thanks, I was looking for this type of feedback. The pricing comparison is still interesting. Could you do a summary of your evaluation for others that didn't test most services?

qeternity 8y ago
Yeah, here's a quick stab: S3 - not much to say, fast, durable, expensive...the gold standard. Given limitations of below, we use for rotating nightly backups despite cost. Glacier - great for cold storage/archive, but has 90 day minimum OVH hot - open stack based, cheaper than S3 but not absurdly cheap, charged for egress even intra-DC which is absurd and kills many use cases. They have crippled OpenStack permission management (i.e. no write-only keys with lifetime management per bucket which is necessary for doing backups securely) OVH cold - charges for ingress but then storage is crazy cheap, and egress not as bad as Glacier. This is our preferred archival option. C14 - not object storage, more like a "cold" ftp dump B2 - pricing is epic, S3-incompatibility is a pain and lack of Backblaze-sponsored libraries (the library in the python b2 cli is not a proper API)...we've been working on adding B2 to WAL-E. However, their permission/user management doesn't cut it. Wasabi - S3 compatible, great pricing if not for 90 day minimum, which they hide in the fine print
- Aissen 8y ago
  That's awesome value, thanks !
- brianwski 8y ago
  Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze. > B2 - their permission/user management doesn't cut it Have you seen the new "Multiple Application Keys" APIs we have published docs for (and the release coming in a week or two)? I'm curious if they satisfy your permission needs. The docs are here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/application_keys.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/application_keys.html A screenshot of the web GUI to these keys is here: https://i.imgur.com/RdlgdAs.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RdlgdAs.jpg (NOTE: the web GUI does not expose the full power of the multiple application keys, it is meant to be easy to use and hopefully satisfy 95% of customer's needs.)
  - AgentME 8y ago
    That looks great for me at least! I'd been using B2 a bit personally, but had written off using it for any serious projects because of the inability to make extra restricted per-project(bucket) API keys.

by Aissen 8y ago

Thanks, I was looking for this type of feedback. The pricing comparison is still interesting. Could you do a summary of your evaluation for others that didn't test most services?

qeternity 8y ago

Yeah, here's a quick stab: S3 - not much to say, fast, durable, expensive...the gold standard. Given limitations of below, we use for rotating nightly backups despite cost. Glacier - great for cold storage/archive, but has 90 day minimum OVH hot - open stack based, cheaper than S3 but not absurdly cheap, charged for egress even intra-DC which is absurd and kills many use cases. They have crippled OpenStack permission management (i.e. no write-only keys with lifetime management per bucket which is necessary for doing backups securely) OVH cold - charges for ingress but then storage is crazy cheap, and egress not as bad as Glacier. This is our preferred archival option. C14 - not object storage, more like a "cold" ftp dump B2 - pricing is epic, S3-incompatibility is a pain and lack of Backblaze-sponsored libraries (the library in the python b2 cli is not a proper API)...we've been working on adding B2 to WAL-E. However, their permission/user management doesn't cut it. Wasabi - S3 compatible, great pricing if not for 90 day minimum, which they hide in the fine print

Aissen 8y ago
That's awesome value, thanks !
brianwski 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Backblaze. > B2 - their permission/user management doesn't cut it Have you seen the new "Multiple Application Keys" APIs we have published docs for (and the release coming in a week or two)? I'm curious if they satisfy your permission needs. The docs are here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/application_keys.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/application_keys.html A screenshot of the web GUI to these keys is here: https://i.imgur.com/RdlgdAs.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RdlgdAs.jpg (NOTE: the web GUI does not expose the full power of the multiple application keys, it is meant to be easy to use and hopefully satisfy 95% of customer's needs.)
- AgentME 8y ago
  That looks great for me at least! I'd been using B2 a bit personally, but had written off using it for any serious projects because of the inability to make extra restricted per-project(bucket) API keys.