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Has anyone had any direct experience between S3 and Backblaze for the basic usecase of uploading and downloading files?

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html

Is just radically different.

B2 isn't great for low latency serving, objects that aren't in hot cache have extremely variable delays on first fetch, and the delay (at least as of a year ago) scales according to object size.

For largeish video (over 500mb) I remember seeing >1 second latency, enough to rule out using it for anything public facing

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