Today, Backblaze announced the launch of their Cloud to Cloud
migration program along with their S3 Compatible APIs moving into general
availability (GA). Backblaze’s cloud to cloud migration program promises to pay
the data transfer fees for any customers looking to migrate 50TB or more worth
of data from AWS. Their S3 Compatible APIs were first released in a beta
version on May 4 and they saw thousands of customers uploading petabytes of
data to their Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.
During the beta period, more than 1,000 unique S3-compatible tools were used by
customers to interact with the new Backblaze S3 compatible layer. Tools like
CloudBerry, MinIO, and Synology were among the third parties that had
pre-existing integrations with Backblaze but now also have customers uploading
through Backblaze’s S3 Compatible APIs. Perhaps more notably, customers brought
a wide variety of tools that had not previously seen upload data to Backblaze.
User agents from Commvault, Cohesity, and Veeam all register now in Backblaze’s
internal reporting. As do many AWS SDKs and even AWS Lambda.
Backblaze has committed to a bug free, highly functional, and stable
experience, and has stated that their functionality and associated
infrastructure is fully ready for global, exabyte scale business. Backblaze is
removing the barriers that are keeping customers’ data locked within the cloud
oligarchy.
Backblaze customers CloudSpot,
a SaaS platform offering photographers the easiest way to share their work
online, was one of the many success stories that Backblaze saw during the beta
trails. CloudSpot Founder and CEO, Gavin Wade said, “With Backblaze, we have a
system for scaling infinitely. It lowers our breakeven customer volume while
increasing our margins, so we can reinvest back into the business. My investors
are happy. I’m happy. It feels incredible.”
ESG Analyst, Scott Sinclair stated that “Many companies have
an S3 compatible storage offering, but Backblaze is one of the few with a
concrete plan for how to solve a key customer problem.”
Find about more on Backblaze’s S3 Compatible APIs and their Cloud to
Cloud migration program here.
