Amazon FSx vs. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon FSx
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Amazon FSx is a cloud storage service designed to make it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a range of workloads boasting reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. As a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups, and supports four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre.N/A
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Backblaze, headquartered in San Mateo, provides cloud storage and online backup, boasting trust with over an exabyte of data from customers in 175 countries. A backup service specialist, Backblaze describes their B2 cloud object storage service as S3 compatible and purpose built to provide simplicity, reliability, and affordability. B2 Cloud Storage is available at $0.005/GB/Month, with single-tier pricing.
$6
per month per TB
Pricing
Amazon FSxBackblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon FSxBackblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTwo pricing models are available: consumption-based pay-as-you-go, and capacity-based storage bundles. Pay-as-you-go consumption-based cloud storage costs $6/TB per month, with your first 10GB free. Egress is free up to 3x of average monthly data stored, and unlimited to many leading content delivery network (CDN) and compute partners. Capacity-based storage, called B2 Reserve, is designed for companies looking for all-inclusive pricing on a single invoice. Storage bundles start at 20TB and can be purchased for one, two, or three years. Egress is always free.
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Community Pulse
Amazon FSxBackblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Features
Amazon FSxBackblaze B2 Cloud Storage
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
8.0
1 Ratings
4% below category average
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
8.0
5 Ratings
4% below category average
Versioning8.01 Ratings8.15 Ratings
Video files6.01 Ratings8.84 Ratings
Audio files6.01 Ratings8.84 Ratings
Document collaboration10.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Access control10.01 Ratings8.14 Ratings
File search8.01 Ratings5.13 Ratings
Device sync8.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
10.0
1 Ratings
14% above category average
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
8.1
5 Ratings
7% below category average
User and role management10.01 Ratings8.14 Ratings
File organization10.01 Ratings6.14 Ratings
Device management10.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Amazon FSx
10.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
9.4
5 Ratings
8% above category average
Performance10.01 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Reliability10.01 Ratings9.35 Ratings
Storage Reports10.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon FSxBackblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(2 ratings)
8.9
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon FSxBackblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
- For any enterprise-grade storage, this is the best option. - EDA workloads are very strong with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp's FlexCache technologies. - Random read workloads such as OLTP are awesome on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. - File Services are the best in class on FSxN. - DR sites from ONTAP on-premises are amazing.
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Backblaze
Providing the option of purchasing a much longer archive if desired or limiting the length of time in maintaining what's been saved is brilliant. It makes all the sense in the world. At the very least, unless the retention period is clearly mandated somehow, it causes a decision maker (especially a small business owner) to think strategically about what the storage needs truly are.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud
  • Multiprotocol access
  • PV for EKS
  • Data mobility
  • Data security
  • Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager
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Backblaze
  • Tight integration with OEM backup application
  • Among the lowest price per TB cloud backup provider
  • AWS S3 service integration
  • Optional services for initial seeding of large backup data sets
  • Optional services for physical backup retrieval to speed up recovery
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Data Protection from AWS console
  • Advance Matrix
  • FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console
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Backblaze
  • Deleting the data is not simpler and requires manual intervention
  • Integration with third party tools needs much improvement as there are very less tools that can be integrated.
  • Fewer data centres presently that restrict options to meet specific geographic redundancy or data sovereignty requirements.
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Usability
Amazon AWS
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Backblaze
Since Backblaze added S3 compatibility a few years ago, it's become the most perfect online backup solution.
I also like their transparency in describing their platform and the reports of hard drive reliability are very interesting.
The free egress is priceless, too.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
I have not worked with other reliable and powerful platform that is as reliable as this product. This platform has given us room to concentrate on more productive activities leaving our data under a safe system. It automates file transfer and saves time in uploading documents across all team members. It interlinks all our applications systems to enhance teamwork and increase production.
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Backblaze
Backblaze is definitely the cheapest and most cost effective out of the 6 other services I've used in the past. For personal use, they are by and away the best service available. For business use, I believe they are a very strong contender to be the #3 guys behind AWS and Linode.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • It improved our TCO by optimizing storage costs between SSDs and S3
  • It speeded our TTM with speedy deployment and orchestration
  • It removed needed expertise from our engineers
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Backblaze
  • Difficult to quantify the peace of mind Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage services provides.
  • Based on the reported experiences of other Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage clients, recovery has been smooth. We have not yet had the need to use that function.
  • Because Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage's service has been seamless, I feel much more confident in their ability to deliver what they promise when we have the need to expand or enhance what we are purchasing from them.
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ScreenShots

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Screenshots

Screenshot of Files are stored in BucketsScreenshot of B2 Cloud Storage Dashboard