What's the point of the Alliance in this case?

if I use against-the-alliance corp, i will just pay the storage+download from backblaze, just the same as using in-bed-with-alliance corp.

Or does the alliance will ensure i only get charged for 1download per file per billing cycle, no matter if the CDN cache can't hold all the data and they download it many times? Does the alliance ensure (and more importantly, who monitors) it?

Hey good question, it's essentially a peered connection so you're not paying for the transfer between providers, you can learn more here -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-part...

Where can I find the pricing info for this allotment?

All of our pricing is available on the site (no need to call anyone) - B2 Cloud Storage is listed here -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html. Just scroll down for the transactions!

                                    Storage        Download
    BackBlaze                       .5 cents/GB    1 cent/GB
    S3 (one zone infrequent access) 1 cent/GB      9 cents/GB

I'll transfer my 250GB of videos and images from S3 to BackBlaze some day.

Heh, we make it easy! Check out this Flexify partnership -> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/supercharged-data-migration-w...

What does "Charged for any portion of a GB." mean?

It means 1.01gb, 1.1gb, and 2.0gb are all charged the same

What about 0.1gb, 0.5gb? I guess that's my question. Is this a minimum charge per download?

Yev here -> No there's no minimum charges for downloads, it's just $0.01/GB down and $0.005/GB/Mo for storage, but everything is calculated on a byte hour level :)

Thanks! That's where I was curious.