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[kwm1800]

Amazon S3, as far as I am concerned, is quite expensive these days. I am not sure the numbers for true exterprise usage/capacity, but when I was looking for reliable offsite backup for my data, I found Amazon is highly priced compared to other solutions.

Did you guys check some alternative folks like Backblaze S2 or Wasabi? I understand these two companies do not have data centers everywhere in the world though compared to Amazon.

[JimH]

Interesting.  Thanks.  We haven't price shopped in many years.  S3 prices have been very reasonable and the overall cost hasn't been high enough to warrant a change.

[kwm1800]

Interesting.  Thanks.  We haven't price shopped in many years.  S3 prices have been very reasonable and the overall cost hasn't been high enough to warrant a change.

Thank you for the reply.

I think it is worth to investigate. As more people use it, the price will creep up rather fast.

Wasabi is a relatively new company, but Backblaze has been around quite a while (I think they started around 2005-ish). The disadvantage is that they have far less servers on non-US regions than Amazon does, but that's their secret of low price (in contrast, Google cloud is the most expensive becasue they pretty much have servers everywhere except China).

I believe Backblaze does have a datacenter in Europe if you need one in the location.

Unfortunately the biggest data transfer I did with Backblaze is mere 5tb-ish so I can't tell about their performance for bigger enterprises like you guys. I have no experience with Wasabi but their supposed advantage is that they use same system as Amazon does for better compatibility with S3-related services.

[kwm1800]

Actually it is Wasabi who has a Euro datacenter, not Backblaze. I was confused.

However it seems there was AMA on Reddit and Backblaze said they will be opening their own datacenter at Europe later this year.