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Re:Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Wi... by DenisM on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @04:43PM (#11483405)
I think your comparison is out of date [1], AWS S3 infrequent access has $0.0125 per GB now not $0.022+ that you have listed. Of course yours is still much better with $0.005 per GB.

Also, it does not look like you have any kind of consumer offering for it, as I have to contact sales to get anything at all. So there's really no point for Arq to even try adding support. I like your prices though.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-providers.html

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Re:Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Wi... by atYevP on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @05:11PM (#11483616)
We don't write out the infrequent access pricing as it's not what we're competing with, also why we don't price out Nearline or Glacier, it's not at 1:1 for what we're trying to offer. The consumer offering is available from the docs: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/. You can use the web interface if you want, or tie in with CLIs/APIs. The sales channel is primarily for people that want to integrate it in to the apps that they are building. Hope that clears some things up!
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