Backblaze launches their first European data center

If you're not familiar with Backblaze, they offer personal backup services at very affordable rates, but their best offering (in my opinion) is their B2 Cloud Storage (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html). It's essentially like Amazon S3, but at a fraction of the cost. If paired with Cloudflare and the Bandwidth Alliance (https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/), egress is entirely free too, meaning that you only pay for storage and API requests.

Their biggest limitation to date has been that they're only in the US, but today they launched their first EU data center in Amsterdam!

I'm a heavy user of Backblaze both personally and in my company, and you can check some of these blog-posts for use-cases and more info:

- https://blog.jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backb...

- https://nodecraft.com/blog/development/migrating-23tb-from-s...