Backblaze opens its first European data centre

[Arthur]

It's in Amsterdam. Click the link for more details.

 

Source: www.backblaze.com/blog/announcing-our-first-european-data-center

 

Big news: Our first European data center, in Amsterdam, is open and accepting customer data!

 

This is our fourth data center (DC) location and the first outside of the western United States. As longtime readers know, we have two DCs in the Sacramento, California area and one in the Phoenix, Arizona area. As part of this launch, we are also introducing the concept of regions.

 

When creating a Backblaze account, customers can choose whether that account’s data will be stored in the EU Central or US West region. The choice made at account creation time will dictate where all of that account’s data is stored, regardless of product choice (Computer Backup or B2 Cloud Storage). For customers wanting to store data in multiple regions, please read this knowledge base article on how to control multiple Backblaze accounts using our (free) Groups feature.

 

Whether you choose EU Central or US West, your pricing for our products will be unchanged:

 

• For B2 Cloud Storage — it’s $0.005/GB/Month. For comparison, storing your data in Amazon S3’s Ireland region will cost ~4.5x more
   
  
• For Computer Backup — $60/Year/Computer is the yearly cost of our industry leading, unlimited data backup for desktops/laptops
  

Later this week we will be publishing more details on the process we undertook to get to this launch. Here’s a sneak preview:

 

• Wednesday, 28 August: Getting Ready to Go (to Europe). How do you even begin to think about opening a DC that isn’t within any definition of driving distance? For the vast majority of companies on the planet, simply figuring out how to get started is a massive undertaking. We’ll be sharing a little more on how we thought about our requirements, gathered information, and the importance of NATO in the whole equation.
   
   
  
• Thursday, 29 August: The Great European (Non) Vacation. With all the requirements done, research gathered, and preliminary negotiations held, there comes a time when you need to jump on a plane and go meet your potential partners. For John & Chris, that meant 10 data center tours in 72 hours across three countries — not exactly a relaxing summer holiday, but vitally important!
   
   
  
• Friday, 30 August: Making a Decision. After an extensive search, we are very pleased to have found our partner in Interxion! We’ll share a little more about the process of narrowing down the final group of candidates and selecting our newest partner.
  

 

[tom_newton]

Massive fan of BB. Hope I can soon move my personal backup data to Amsterdam.

[Soulfish]

Massive fan of BB. Hope I can soon move my personal backup data to Amsterdam.

 

Same - I've been asking them for an EU DC since I first signed up in 2008

[Arthur]

B2 now has an S3 compatible API!

 

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

 

Today, I’m thrilled to announce the public beta launch of our most requested feature: S3 Compatible APIs for B2 Cloud Storage.

 

If you have wanted to use B2 Cloud Storage but your application or device didn’t support it, or you wanted to move to cloud storage in general but couldn’t afford it, you should be able to instantly start with the new S3 Compatible APIs for Backblaze B2.

 

Welcome to Backblaze B2 via our S3 Compatible APIs

In practical terms, this launch means that you can now instantly plug into the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage service by doing little more than pointing your data to a new destination. There’s no need to write new code, no change in workflow, and no downtime. Our S3 Compatible APIs are ready to use, and our solutions engineering team is ready to help you get started.

 

But they’re not alone. We have a number of launch partners leveraging our S3 Compatible APIs so you can use B2 Cloud Storage. These partners include IBM Aspera, Quantum, and Veeam

 

This means it will be compatible with Veeam B&R v10.

Edited May 4, 2020 by Arthur

[Edu-IT]

So for about £50 you can get unlimited backup. Seems very cheap?

[Arthur]

So for about £50 you can get unlimited backup. Seems very cheap?

You're looking at the wrong prices.

 

www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html#calculator

[Edu-IT]

I was looking to backup a single computer?

 

https://www.backblaze.com/business-pricing.html

[Arthur]

I was looking to backup a single computer?

Backblaze Personal or Business online backup would probably be the cheapest way to backup a single computer if you have a lot of data, although it's worth noting that it does exclude quite a lot of files and folders by default and only stores file revisions for 30 days.

 

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/218483787-What-s-the-difference-between-B2-vs-Backblaze-Online-Backup

 

Backblaze Online Backup backs up PC and Mac desktop computers for $6/month, with "unlimited backup" for all the data attached to computer, including external USB hard drives. The personal backup product is encrypted and data in the backup is only accessible by the account owner.

 

The online backup service includes software to automatically manage the backups of a Mac or Windows computer. The Backblaze Online Backup software creates a mirror copy of the data on the licensed computer, except for data explicitly excluded, with a running 30 day file revision history.

 

Backblaze has introduced extended version history that, for an additional fee, will keep your data for up to 1-year or permanently. Information on how to set this up and the pricing is here.

 

Backblaze Online Backup is not designed to be used as offsite data archival or offsite storage for data that will not be retained on the licensed computer.

 

Read more about Personal Backup here: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup.html

 

B2 Cloud Storage:

B2 is generic cloud storage. You can use it from any computer, any operating system or any cloud storage purpose.

 

Service charges for B2 are variable based on the amount of data storage, bandwidth used, and transactions performed. The baseline cost for storage is $0.005/GByte/Month (half of one penny).