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(backblaze ceo here) We're happy to take customers regardless of which API they choose. Sure, we make a bit more on our B2 Native APIs, but ultimately I'd rather we make it easy fo…

(backblaze ceo here) Google and Azure continue to offer their own API as do we. They also offer S3 compatibility options to support customers who want to use S3-compatible products…

(backblaze ceo here) Just fyi, you can put both accounts into a single Group for easier management: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000014914

(backblaze ceo here) Yes, easy to move the data to a compatible bucket using our B2 CLI or Transmit: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047120614-Ho...

(backblaze ceo here) B2 is a great origin store for your video files. If you're streaming to lots of viewers, using a CDN with Backblaze B2 is optimal. We partnered with Cloudflare…

(backblaze ceo here) We also have a region in Europe: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european...

No gateway - native code written from scratch and optimized for our environment...sitting on top of regular, inexpensive hardware.

Can you share what you do with B2? (Are you hosting educational content? Something else?)

(backblaze ceo here) AWS is free to Cloudfront because that's an AWS service. AWS/GCP/Azure are not free (and quite expensive) to Cloudflare. Backblaze is free to Cloudflare.

We’re happy to help. Shoot me an email and I’ll connect you. Gleb (founder @ Backblaze) Gleb.budman at Backblaze

Looks like they're in Germany/Finland. We'll try.

I guess we can explore with DO, but certainly will with Linode.

Which functions are you using?

B2 is object storage. Similar to any object storage you generally want to use it for storing the data, not running heavy analytics directly on it. Usually you'd want to move the da…

By 'similar' do you mean having a German trustee or something else?

Thanks - definitely looking near there.

Agree - would love to connect some data warehouse services. (Seems Spark & Drill are not hosted, but a customer could run those in a compute provider.) SlicingDice worked for me. A…

Great - we'll try to connect with them.

Excellent. We just created this Google Form to add/recommend partners: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdObw8HKH4uDexOg-fl...

Does it matter where in Europe for you? And curious which of the various reasons does a European presence matter to you most?

Just to add a bit more color - we're actively aiming to have a European region by end of year.

Would love to help your company with their storage needs. Feel free to email me: gleb.budman at backblaze BTW, this person is figuring out how to do transcoding of files their file…

Hey Byran - what do you hope to do with it?

Thanks for the kudos. We're open to supporting other providers as well, including other types of services beyond compute (e.g. databases and specific verticals.) Do you have some s…

We're thrilled about this. In short, we've directly connected our storage and their compute to ensure fast connections, and made the data transfers free. We've heard some ways peop…