Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by pyprism » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs
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Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by avolcano » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:52 PM UTC

Huh, I thought it already had this! Must have mixed it up with a different object storage service (maybe DigitalOcean?).

I've been using B2 for backup storage for some personal projects. It doesn't necessarily do anything "better" than S3 from what I've seen, but never having to log into AWS's dashboard is a reward enough on its own.

They do have a command-line client that's a quick PIP install, so you can do something like:

  b2 upload-file bucket-name /path/to/file remote-filename

Which is, of course, nice for backups.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by nielsole » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:52 PM UTC

Here is the reasoning why they didn't have "s3 compatibility" before: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/design-thinking-b2-apis-the-h...

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by mgamache » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:53 PM UTC

S3 is now the standard for cloud storage APIs? Not sure if that's good or bad. I guess competitors have to reduce switching costs.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by dopamean » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:56 PM UTC

I have a decent sized music collection consisting a lot of lossless vinyl rips that I've made from my record collection. It totals around 200gigs at the moment but is growing weekly. I've been looking for somewhere to back this all up in the cloud and backblaze is looking most promising at the moment. Anyone here have any thoughts on where I should go with this?

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by WalterBAmaQ » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:56 PM UTC

Great. How about rsync.net-compatible (i.e. bog-standard, vendor-neutral) "APIs"?

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by Hamuko » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:56 PM UTC

avolcano wrote: post #2

Huh, I thought it already had this! Must have mixed it up with a different object storage service (maybe DigitalOcean?). I've been using B2 for backup storage for some personal projects. It doesn't necessarily do anything "better" than S3 from what I've seen, but never having to log into AWS's dashboard is a reward enough on its own. They do have a command-line client that's a quick PIP install, so you can do somethi…

>Huh, I thought it already had this!

Same since it seems to be on the new storage service launch checklist right after "buy hard drives".

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by yamrzou » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:58 PM UTC

nielsole wrote: post #3

Here is the reasoning why they didn't have "s3 compatibility" before: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/design-thinking-b2-apis-the-h...

So how did they manage to get rid of those hidden costs? Or is the new S3 compatible API more expensive?

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by hartator » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

Actually excited by this. I was benchmarking S3 vs B2 vs others 2 years ago and I had to give up on B2 because its implementation for performance was so much more difficult. (88 lines vs 36 lines for all others in Ruby)

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

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Post by 3pt14159 » Mon, May 04, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

dopamean wrote: post #5

I have a decent sized music collection consisting a lot of lossless vinyl rips that I've made from my record collection. It totals around 200gigs at the moment but is growing weekly. I've been looking for somewhere to back this all up in the cloud and backblaze is looking most promising at the moment. Anyone here have any thoughts on where I should go with this?

I used blackblaze for years (redundant DB backups) and never once had a problem with it or its API. It's just a great service.