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I wish Backblaze would provide some sort of Amazon S3 competitor, Amazon always seems very overpriced.
by rythie 13y ago
I wish Backblaze would provide some sort of Amazon S3 competitor, Amazon always seems very overpriced.
- atYevP 13y agoHypothetically, what would you be looking for in an S3 competitor? Specifically: 1. How much data do you have? 2. What would you use it for? 3. How important is it if the API isn't the same as the S3 API? 4. Any specific certification requirements? 5. Would you have any SLA requirements? 6. Specific performance metrics? Think Amazon S3 vs. Glacier. 7. Are redundant data centers important? Hypothetically!
- rythie 13y agoI think the main problem is cost, Amazon's costs prevent startups like Everpix from existing as does it for video startups and various other startups that require a lot of storage. I think Digital Ocean's disruption of the very established VPS market is the model to follow. Personally I'd like to have all my data in the cloud. 1. 300GB growing at 25-50GB/year 2. Backup / cloud storage 3. Possibly, though I'd like SFTP access really 4. no 5. Don't lose my data, probably not down for more that 3-4 hours in one go. 6. Enough to stream video to back to my box 7. Not really, I'd assume the chance of data center being down is pretty small. Hitachi 500GB USB $2.4/month (based on $60 drive with 2 year warranty) Backblaze $5/month [Unlimited] Crashplan $5/month [Unlimited] Amazon charge $22.80/month Dropbox $50/month [500GB] (though I still need a local copy) Digital Ocean instance $320/month I think there is opportunity to come in at half of Amazon's price or less and that could lead to a new set of start-ups that could build on that.
- atYevP 13y agoThanks for taking the time to answer! Interesting use-case!