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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Overview

What is Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage?

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…

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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $6 per month per TB
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Product Details

What is Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage?

Backblaze offers B2 Cloud Storage as an always hot, S3 compatible object storage that makes it easy for businesses to store, use, and protect their data. The solution boasts hundreds of integration partners and a tech stack agnostic approach, integrating with companies' existing workflows and preferred compute and content delivery network (CDN) tools, fitting multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and other infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments.

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Features

File Sharing & Management Features

  • Supported: Versioning
  • Supported: Document files
  • Supported: Image files
  • Supported: Video files
  • Supported: Audio files
  • Supported: Document collaboration
  • Supported: Shared folders
  • Supported: Access control
  • Supported: File search
  • Supported: Web interface

Cloud Storage Security & Administration Features

  • Supported: Single sign-on
  • Supported: Two-step verification
  • Supported: End-user encryption
  • Supported: User and role management
  • Supported: File organization

Cloud Storage Platform Features

  • Supported: Performance
  • Supported: Reliability

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Screenshots

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

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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesNorth America, European Union, Global

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage starts at $6.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage are common alternatives for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.

The most common users of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Paulette Ensign | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage backs up our external drive, where we archive everything we do internally to run the business, including client work so we have that level of automatic redundancy in place. That is in addition to the backup our vendors and subcontractors have on their own respective computers and stored in the cloud. Because this backup is done automatically and we receive regular reports from Backblaze, we're able to sleep a lot better at night and pay less than we were with the previous cloud backup service we used. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage also seems to have their system working seamlessly so there's never an outage or or gap of any kind, which somehow happened all too often with the previous vendor company. When I looked for referrals for a reliable and inexpensive cloud service, I had no idea Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage was so popular among other small business owners. I've seen why in my own experience this past year since we switched over to them.
  • Seamless service - I hardly know they're there, yet reports assure me they are!
  • Charges a reasonable price for excellent coverage.
  • Communicate clearly and promptly on the rare times I've had a question.
  • For what my company needs, I cannot think of anything more or better they could do, though a birthday card would be fun!
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.
  • Abundant storage space to grow into
  • Consistent service and communication
  • Reasonable fee for service
  • Ease of reconstructing content (though we have fortunately not needed that -- yet!)
File Sharing & Management (6)
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10.0
Versioning
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10.0
Video files
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Audio files
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10.0
Access control
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10.0
File search
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Device sync
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10.0
Cloud Storage Security & Administration (3)
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10.0
User and role management
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10.0
File organization
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10.0
Device management
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10.0
Cloud Storage Platform (3)
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10.0
Performance
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Reliability
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10.0
Storage Reports
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10.0
  • 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.
Because they continuously had times they required updating the account and there were hiccups when that happened, over time, I became skeptical of their ability to keep my files secure. They were the first cloud backup storage company I had ever used and I stayed with them for almost two decades. Then it happened that we did have to do a recovery two different times because of hardware failures. It was anything but a smooth or complete recovery, and their price kept rising as their service declined. Hundreds of files were totally lost in the process. I guessed that among their strategies, it might well have been a re-focus on their part to build up their enterprise accounts and didn't seem to care about small business. I finally had enough and left them as a client.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We needed an easy to use, always on back up solution. Many of our clients actually require that we have redundancy and protection plans in place in the event of an outage or memory loss and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage was the solution we chose.
  • easy to use
  • works without you having to do anything
  • notifies you if there's a problem
  • easy to implement
  • costs just went up some
  • might be nice to get confirmation that it's working occasionally
  • nothing else
If you need a solution that's easy to use and dummy proof, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is it. We wanted an always on solution that would back up our files without us having to do any oversight or remembering to run the tool. This is exactly that.
  • always on
  • cloud based
  • good price
File Sharing & Management (4)
100%
10.0
Versioning
100%
10.0
Video files
100%
10.0
Audio files
100%
10.0
Device sync
100%
10.0
Cloud Storage Security & Administration (2)
100%
10.0
File organization
100%
10.0
Device management
100%
10.0
Cloud Storage Platform (3)
100%
10.0
Performance
100%
10.0
Reliability
100%
10.0
Storage Reports
100%
10.0
  • provides peace of mind
  • meets client requirements for redundancy
  • one less thing to worry about
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is the best of the bunch. It's priced better than the more expensive cloud based solutions and more robust than the file storage sites like Dropbox or Google Drive.
Matt Hoffman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Backblaze offers some of the cheapest storage available. I have over 2 terabytes of backups (excessive, I know!) which only cost me $10 as of last month. Extremely cost effective and allows us to store very old backups for a very cheap price. Their personal backup services are even cheaper, and has (at time of review) unlimited backup capacity.
  • File management
  • Pricing
  • Customer Service
  • File organization sometimes is a little confusing
  • Lots of emails, but I assume that's due to the alerts I have set up
I would consider Backblaze as a second or a third tier backup solution. Not in terms of quality, but I'd recommend having at least one more backup saved somewhere else. And with the cost as low as theirs, Backblaze is the perfect solution. It also provides very friendly recovery options on both the personal and business side.
  • Price
  • Capacity
  • Bucket abilities
  • We haven't had any data loss situations yet, however I'm sure our ROI will be fairly high if we have to recover any data. Backblaze is in the insurance industry, not storage.
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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