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Good luck Backblaze! It is a tough market for sure, especially with recent announcement from Cloudflare.

• yellow_lead 5y ago
  Didn't know Backblaze offers cloud storage. Cool to know!
  • miked85 5y ago
    Isn't that basically their entire business?
    • yellow_lead 5y ago
      I only knew of them from their consumer business.
• austinpena 5y ago
  I think B2 and R2 target different market segments.
  • flatiron 5y ago
    The store stuff on the internet and the… Wait. What’s the other segment?
    • austinpena 5y ago
      *opinions are mine and not my employers. It depends how you're going to access your data/ compliance needs. B2 per/TB storage is much cheaper than what R2 will be. R2 will enable cross-region availability which can be necessary for many companies choosing to adopt. It's my opinion that R2 targets more the likes of S3/ integrated storage providers rather than just being a "low cost" provider like Wasabi/Storj/B2/etc.
  • encryptluks2 5y ago
    How so? Cloudflare R2 targets B2, but technically you're not supposed to use Cloudflare for free B2 egress unless you are on a paid plan.
    • austinpena 5y ago
      What about the bandwidth alliance necessitates being on the paid plan? https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/ https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/ Maybe you're referring to the "Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content"? https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/#28-limitation-on-serving-non-html-content https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/#28-limitation-on-serving-n...
• johnsoft 5y ago
  Backblaze B2 is significantly cheaper than R2. I don't think Cloudflare will be stealing many of their customers.