[adventured]

Very much depends on what you're utilizing Backblaze for. It's unusable for volume image hosting for example. It has severe performance problems with small files, as does much of the object storage field (including DigitalOcean, they directly warn customers not to bother using their object storage for small files if performance is a concern). The CDN doesn't help much, Backblaze chokes if you try to shovel a large number of small files at it (their infrastructure was not designed for that and they admit it in their docs), and or attempt to pull a lot of small files out of it. AWS is pretty great when it comes to that by contrast, and with the price to go with it. I'm looking forward to finding out what R2 can do.

[drip-egg-jack]

This is true - most of the object storage providers are really bad at serving data fast, they more focused on a cold storage. Tebi.io works really fast for small files, plus it is a geo-distributed object storage meaning that data is physically stored in different locations around the world, greatly reducing latency.

Backblaze, DO Spaces simply were not designed for this in the first place.