[kdasme]

Good luck Backblaze! It is a tough market for sure, especially with recent announcement from Cloudflare.

[yellow_lead]

Didn't know Backblaze offers cloud storage. Cool to know!

[miked85]

Isn't that basically their entire business?

[yellow_lead]

I only knew of them from their consumer business.

[johnsoft]

Backblaze B2 is significantly cheaper than R2. I don't think Cloudflare will be stealing many of their customers.

[austinpena]

I think B2 and R2 target different market segments.

[flatiron]

The store stuff on the internet and the…

Wait. What’s the other segment?

[austinpena]

*opinions are mine and not my employers.

It depends how you're going to access your data/ compliance needs.

B2 per/TB storage is much cheaper than what R2 will be.

R2 will enable cross-region availability which can be necessary for many companies choosing to adopt.

It's my opinion that R2 targets more the likes of S3/ integrated storage providers rather than just being a "low cost" provider like Wasabi/Storj/B2/etc.

[encryptluks2]

How so? Cloudflare R2 targets B2, but technically you're not supposed to use Cloudflare for free B2 egress unless you are on a paid plan.

[austinpena]

What about the bandwidth alliance necessitates being on the paid plan?

https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/

Maybe you're referring to the "Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content"?

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/#28-limitation-on-serving-n...