[mwcampbell]

I, for one, prefer the directness of not having to go through a front-end proxy. It probably eliminates some failure modes. I think that, instead of Backblaze providing an S3-compatible API, someone should do an open-source S3-compatible front-end for B2, that any interested user can run on a cheap VPS.

[narsil]

I work at https://kloudless.com. While not S3-compatible, we offer a similar proxy that provides a single API to multiple storage services such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, SharePoint, etc. We've also released support for S3 and Azure and are looking into B2.

[khc]

If someone writes a jclouds provider for B2, you can then use https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy to interface with it

[toomuchtodo]

https://libcloud.apache.org/