Their bill was $1885.43, not $436.77.
This is because they were pushing an average of 112 requests per second, the entire month.
This is because they were pushing an average of 112 requests per second, the entire month.
I understand, I was comparing the storage cost.
Backblaze publishes a cost calculator here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html (scroll down, it is half way down that page). But it might not contain transactions.
Backblaze does charge for transactions to recoup costs from that sort of thing. But it isn't intended as a "profit mechanism", we believe we approximately break even on the bill for transactions.
In this case their bill would have had $115.89 for the 290 million requests.
Glad to see it's not a free lunch, I'm sorry for assuming otherwise.
And thanks for b2, it's a great service :)