[andrewxdiamond]

Yeah turns out S3 is expensive because all those 9s cost $$$

[sofixa]

Also the cool features around deletion prevention, automatic lifecycle management.

[metadaddy]

Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze.

Backblaze B2 does include deletion prevention (object lock) and lifecycle management to automatically hide (soft delete) or (hard) delete objects according to a schedule.

[akira2501]

Durable S3 event delivery and free transfer out to same region services also make it easy to build large chunks of useful infrastructure out of it.