Perhaps most importantly, it enables us to sustainably offer cloud storage at a ¼ of the price of S3, which you will really appreciate as your application or service grows.

The short answer is that our architecture enables some useful differentiators for B2. In the case of Minio, it enables customers to take something that was integrated with the S3 API and immediately use it with B2.īefore going further, you might ask “why didn’t Backblaze just create an S3 compatible service?” We covered that topic in a recent blog post, Design Thinking: B2 APIs (& The Hidden Costs of S3 Compatibility).

One of the more frequent questions we get is “how do I jump from S3 to B2 Cloud Storage?” We’ve previously highlighted many of the direct integrations that developers have built on B2: here’s a full list.Īnother way to work with B2 is to use what is called a “cloud storage gateway.” A gateway is a service that acts as a translation layer between two services. Amazon’s set of APIs to interact with their cloud storage, often just called “S3,” is frequently the first integration point for an application or service needing to send data to the cloud. While there are many choices when it comes to object storage, the largest provider and the most recognized is usually Amazon’s S3.

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