[smileybarry]

They probably meant their B2 storage service, which is like S3 and bills for storage, egress, some operations, etc. That’s one service I wouldn’t expect to have some cancellation for overload in place. You’re using a token anyway, why not just rate-limit you instead?

[manishsharan]

Blackblaze B2 is supposed to be AWS S3 competitor. S3 is simply unbreakable. If Blackblaze intends to compete with S3, they can't complain about load stress on their B2.And they can't rate limit either.

[jsjohnst]

> S3 is simply unbreakable

Minor nitpick, but this is categorically not true. As a customer, one who proactively worked with AWS AMs, SAs, and S3 engineers directly before making the change, I still took down S3 by just changing how new files were stored in our S3 bucket. Yes, this S3 bucket was at the time the largest bucket (based on number of files), but still not “simply unbreakable”.