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>"We make it astonishingly easy to store, use, and protect data" What does this even mean? And how is their business even remotely competitive with the big 3?
by ramesh31 5y ago
>"We make it astonishingly easy to store, use, and protect data"
What does this even mean? And how is their business even remotely competitive with the big 3? Bit pushing is a volume game, and it doesn't seem like they have much of it.
- haggy102 5y agoThey essentially market themselves as "S3 without the surprise costs" as well as "trust as more than amazon" which I think they hold up to. What they lack is the insane amount of reliability and scalability that S3 offers. I'm not saying this as a fanboy of S3. They (aws) have their share of issues and AWS has never been transparent about their pricing structure. If you don't believe me there just Google "surprise AWS costs". Just like everything in life B2 is a tradeoff. I love healthy competition and I hope backblaze continues to crush it!
- prirun 5y agoI'm the author of HashBackup. What I like about Backblaze B2 is that is has simple, no gimmick pricing, unlike almost every other cloud storage company. It doesn't have delete penalties, where they charge for storage you've deleted. It doesn't have minimum file sizes, where they charge for storage you aren't actually using. It doesn't have a minimum payment every month. For backups, their business is very competitive with the big 3, especially considering that they will mail a physical drive to you with your data.