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Backblaze B2
Affordable S3-compatible cloud object storage
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Scalability
high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
easy
Maturity
stable
Languages: Any
Architecture: object-storage
When to Use
- +Cost-sensitive
- +Backup/archive
- +Cloudflare integration
When Not to Use
- -Enterprise features needed
- -Global presence required
Strengths
- Very affordable
- S3 compatible
- Simple pricing
- Free egress to partners
Weaknesses
- Smaller ecosystem
- Limited regions
- Fewer features
Operations
Maintenance
low
Monitoring
low
Backup/Recovery
simple
Hosting: managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Object Storage
- License
- commercial
- Pricing
- usage based (free tier)
- Community
- medium
- Docs Quality
- good
- Trend
- growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- low
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmedium
Use Cases
- Backup
- Archive
- Media storage
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