Backblaze offers specialized cloud storage that makes it astonishingly easy for businesses to store, use, and protect their data. The B2 Cloud Storage platform offers always-hot, S3 compatible object storage that’s readily available through APIs, ISVs, CLI, and web UI. With a tech stack agnostic approach that integrates with companies' existing workflows and preferred compute and CDN tools, the platform fits multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and other IaaS strategies.

Yes, Backblaze B2 is often used within organizations’ hybrid cloud or multi-cloud infrastructure. You can easily integrate Backblaze B2 via API, CLI, or third-party software and/or hardware integration.

Yes, Backblaze offers Universal Data Migration to support moving or copying data from a range of sources, including legacy public cloud providers such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft, cloud drive services such as Google Drive and Box, on-premises servers, storage area network (SAN), and network attached storage (NAS), and LTO tape media. Backblaze will help cover migration costs with qualifying commitments.

Backblaze safeguards exabytes of customer data for respected organizations worldwide. Since 2007, we’ve been known for transparent business practices—from sharing industry-improving data to operating as a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: BLZE). Our solutions are easy to adopt, easy to manage, and straightforward to price.

Storing and using data is energy intensive–there’s just no way around this fact. However, by centralizing and optimizing data storage within our network of data centers, the Backblaze Storage Cloud operates more efficiently than distributed, on-premises systems storing the same volume of data. That said, the company understands that there is still more work to be done and is committed to a more sustainable future. Backblaze is acting accordingly to do its part and help B2 Cloud Storage customers reduce their carbon footprints and progress on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies. Backblaze from its beginnings focused on building a sustainable business. We lead the industry with our learning—for more than 10 years, sharing data and insights from more than 200,000 spinning drives to help others globally to do better. Additionally, we’ve operationalized impact reduction, from supporting data lifecycle rules to help customers store selectively and thereby manage down energy consumption, to recycling decommissioned hardware including drives, to moving into our Stockton1 data center for river cooling, no water consumption, no water pollution, no chemical use, and projected carbon footprint approximately 30% below average.

Yes, Backblaze B2 integrates seamlessly with thousands of hardware and software tools, likely including those you use in your workflow. Some examples of our Alliance Partners are Veeam, MSP360, Arq, rclone, Commvault, Veritas, iconik, LucidLink, Synology, Fastly, and Vultr. You can find a more extensive list of tested integrations here; and many more will work seamlessly with Backblaze B2 given its S3 compatibility.

Backblaze B2 offers unlimited free egress when downloading to or through partner content delivery networks (CDNs) and compute services, including Fastly, Cloudflare, bunny.net, CacheFly, CoreWeave, Equinix Metal, Vultr, and phoenixNAP. Additionally, B2 Overdrive includes unlimited free egress to any destinations, supporting throughput-intensive workloads.

Backblaze B2 Overdrive is a high-throughput cloud object storage solution, engineered for workloads needing rapid data access. Built on top of Backblaze B2, it provides increased storage and networking throughput, and includes unlimited free egress to facilitate intensive data operations without prohibitive costs.

B2 Overdrive is specifically designed for organizations with demanding, throughput-intensive applications like AI/ML training and inference, high-performance compute (HPC), large-scale data analytics, media processing pipelines, and research compute.

All B2 Cloud Storage users get free egress up to 3x their average monthly storage. Your monthly average is calculated based on byte hours over the billing cycle. Egress beyond 3x is just $0.01/GB—no surprise fees, no penalties. B2 Overdrive also provides unlimited free egress to any destination in the world.