https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2023-product-announcement/
On October 3, 2023, Backblaze is making some updates and upgrades to our products and pricing. Read the full announcement here.
So storage goes from $5 to $6 = 20% increase But we get free download x3 of whatever size we store there? It was 1GB a day limit before right? Above that its 0.01$ per GB, but thats same as before I think.
If all above is correct, its still not that bad imo, at least I dont have to be afraid of using backup, at least not for the first 3 times :)
I feel like this is probably a net boon? The 3x stored data free egress means you can test your backup to make sure it works without incurring potentially hundreds of dollars in egress fees to make sure your 3-2-1 last resort backup works correctly.
Plus it avoids the huge potential costs if you actually do need to use that backup of last resort in exchange for a higher monthly fee.
For anyone who doesn't know, egress is already free if you route it through CloudFlare's Bandwidth Alliance Program from a few years back. If you are already using this setup, there doesn't appear to be any up side to this up coming change (other than the bill).
I was thinking exactly this. If this is account wide, not per bucket, it would work well for instance media storage for me. The amt I have stored for backups dwarfs how much data is in my pictrs.
I was just looking for cheap backup space recently and Hetzners Storage Box BX21 is 13€ per month for 5 TB, 20 Snapshots and unlimited traffic. I did not compare the service with backblaze yet, though.
I'm waiting for hetzner object storage (they were hiring some people for this a couple of months ago)
What are the current alternatives?
While not S3 compatible, it's compatible with rclone, rsync, borg, restic, and generic connection methods like SFTP, Samba or WebDAV.
Safe to say that most backup applications will be able to connect to it somehow.