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Re:Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs by toomuchtodo on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:03PM (#23069647)
It's possible they're eating the cost of the load balancing necessary to multiplex from their backends to client requests, which should theoretically stoke an increase in business due to reduced switching costs (and what timing, with an economic contraction likely pushing cost reductions at those needing cloud storage).

Disclaimer: Happy Backblaze Mac client and B2 customer, no other affiliation.

EDIT: @yev: I took the signal out after the sibling reply :) Appreciate the responses as always. Please stay awesome.

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Re:Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs by atYevP on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:13PM (#23069804)
Yev here -> saw my Yev-signal. That's right, Gleb actually answered that question on our blog (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-b2-s3-compatible-ap...) but we're eating the cost. Om nom nom.
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Re:Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs by justinclift on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:06PM (#23070560)
Interesting. Implementation wise, is it some form of Minio gateway + hardware?
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Re:Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs by budmang on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:57PM (#23071172)
No gateway - native code written from scratch and optimized for our environment...sitting on top of regular, inexpensive hardware.
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Re:Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs by atYevP on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:36PM (#23071618)
When you say regular, I think you mean awesome Storage Pods that were lovingly purpose-built for affordable and efficient data storage (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html).

*Edit -> Well, those plus the load balancing servers =D

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Re:Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs by fthead9 on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:07PM (#23069699)
From Gleb (CEO) comment on the blog. "Yes - B2 is still a more cost efficient API as it allows customers to connect directly to the final storage location. However, we have built a highly cost efficient load balancing system as we always have - using software to optimize inexpensive hardware - and are swallowing the additional costs for our customers."
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