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Yev here -> thanks! We're constantly working on making the platform better, and copy-file was definitely a widely requested feature! That plus S3 Compatibility, for folks who wanted to integrated with B2 Cloud Storage but didn't have the resources to write code to our B2 Native API.
I've been using B2 to disrupt a bunch of ugly & entrenched vendors in the price sensitive K12 market. Thanks for building it. :)
I migrated a client from Cloudinary($1k+ /mo) to B2, a Go+ImageMagick program running in DigitalOcean and Cloudflare CDN for a total of $60 /mo. It’s been running for two years now, B2 has been incredibly reliable.
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Interesting. Implementation wise, is it some form of Minio gateway + hardware?
No gateway - native code written from scratch and optimized for our environment...sitting on top of regular, inexpensive hardware.
*Edit -> Well, those plus the load balancing servers =D
Can Amazon actually patent their API (per the google vs oracle case) - basically like prevent other vendors to provide S3 APIs so that Amazon can lock in users. I am not a lawyer. So this is a genuine / dumb question.
> Can Amazon actually patent their API (per the google vs oracle case) - basically like prevent other vendors to provide S3 APIs so that Amazon can lock in users.
Most likely yes. Backblaze plans going forward are to fully, uncompromisingly maintain our original native B2 APIs for a few reasons including this concern.
It's probably up to Amazon whether they want to boot all 3rd parties off their S3 API. Backblaze has a viable fallback if that occurs. I hope for customer's sake Amazon doesn't declare war in that fashion.
If Amazon decides on this path, internally at Backblaze we have discussed immediately doing the opposite - declaring for all of time anybody can copy our B2 APIs. Remember, our APIs are technically superior to the S3 APIs. They are lower cost to implement, and are shockingly easier to use for developers. They don't make all the mistakes S3 made. We had the luxury of learning from all their mistakes over the years. :-)
Is B2 suitable for streaming video files? Can I stream the same file to 1,000 viewers at the same time?
This is huge because it means you can use things like S3 Fuse to mount your storage. Which means you can use it to extend your local disk, or run your own backups, or whatever. Amusingly the price to store 1.2TB of data is the same as the cost of their backup plan, so if your disk is smaller than that, you could save a few bucks running your own backups. Until you have to restore (from what I can tell restores are fr…
You could, but if i read correctly (s3fs-fuse limitations): "random writes or appends to files require rewriting the entire file".
So changing 1 bit of a 10GB file, means re-uploading 10GB.
Now that we're talking about B2, has or is anyone using them for latency-sensitive small-file object storage? I'm about to take the plunge and set up benchmarks, my use-case is that I want to store and serve ~ 500k small files (30b-1MB) per day to website visitors. So far B2 support has told me that it shouldn't be a problem, and early benchmarking indicates the same, just curious if anyone had stories from the trenc…
I'm seeing horrible TTFB from Europe. Most files are fast but sometimes a request is stuck for 10s or more...
BIG gotcha btw: You have to choose between US and EU when you create your B2 account! You can't have buckets in the other location, so that means you'll need two accounts if you want to do that.
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I've been using B2 to disrupt a bunch of ugly & entrenched vendors in the price sensitive K12 market. Thanks for building it. :)
Ah that's awesome! I'd love to more know! How are you using B2 in general, and does this make it easier for you? If you want to leave a note here, or you can send it to: b2feedback@backblaze.com!
This is great news... there are lots more good clients for S3 than B2, and implementing one is less than trivial because of some special considerations B2 had in the beginning (namely: uploading directly to a pod.) I see this isn't available for old buckets, is there a straightforward way to duplicate a bucket to make it compatible or do you have to use something like rclone?