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Re:Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs by tambre on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:02PM (#23069622)
>It requires Amazon to have a massive and expensive choke point in their network: load balancers. When a customer tries to upload to S3, she is given a single upload URL to use. For instance, s3.amazonaws.com/<bucketname>.

Now that Amazon has deprecated the single URL version and replaced it with region-specific URLs (e.g. s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com) and tooling has been mostly updated, this huge reason for not supporting the S3 API is gone.

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Re:Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs by jjeaff on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:28PM (#23070844)
Even though they are using region specific URLs, they would still have to load balance all of that traffic. Backblaze avoided this by having a 2 part request for a file. You would make a request to a centralized url and then that would return a url that connected you directly to a server that had that file.
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Re:Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:11PM (#23076058)
> You would make a request to a centralized url and then that would return a url that connected you directly to a server that had that file.

Heh, kinda like how FTP worked. That's funny to see again.

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