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> Backblaze B2 provides the cheapest cloud object storage and transfer available on the internet

Are you sure ? http://gaul.org/object-store-comparison/ says there are cheaper options

EDIT: Edited the link away from https://wasabi.com/pricing/. Wasabi seems cheaper than B2 and claims to be a hot storage solution

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We are big users of OVH, AWS and B2 object storage. OVH charge for ingress and egress even if local. AWS Glacier has 90 minimum storage time. For most uses cases, B2 is much much cheaper.

EDIT: Response to your edit, Wasabi also has 90 day minimum storage policy.

B2 is cheaper than OVH object store?

Yes

That does indeed look cheaper. I'll have to make an SDK for them next :D

edit: Woah, you edited your comment. What made you change from Wasabi?

Sorry, I was thinking about Wasabi when I was reading your post, but then I checked if there were even cheaper options

Wasabi has a 90 day minimum storage period, just like AWS Glacier. This means it's pretty unusable for things like nightly backups if your retention is less than 90 days.

If your backup process involves downloading the backup artifacts in a different region (say for true off site DR + validation) then it's still a net win as the 90-day storage costs are less than the insanely high $.09/GB AWS charges for outbound bandwidth.

arent the cheaper ones just cold storage solutions?

That's what I'm seeing.

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