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(backblaze ceo here) We're happy to take customers regardless of which API they choose. Sure, we make a bit more on our B2 Native APIs, but ultimately I'd rather we make it easy for them to use us how they wish.

(backblaze ceo here) Google and Azure continue to offer their own API as do we. They also offer S3 compatibility options to support customers who want to use S3-compatible products...as now do we ;-)

(backblaze ceo here) B2 is a great origin store for your video files. If you're streaming to lots of viewers, using a CDN with Backblaze B2 is optimal. We partnered with Cloudflare as a founding member of the Bandwidth Alliance so you can store your videos with B2 and transit them for free to Cloudflare, which can serve to your viewers.

No gateway - native code written from scratch and optimized for our environment...sitting on top of regular, inexpensive hardware.

Can you share what you do with B2? (Are you hosting educational content? Something else?)

(backblaze ceo here) AWS is free to Cloudfront because that's an AWS service. AWS/GCP/Azure are not free (and quite expensive) to Cloudflare. Backblaze is free to Cloudflare.

We’re happy to help. Shoot me an email and I’ll connect you.

Gleb (founder @ Backblaze) Gleb.budman at Backblaze

Looks like they're in Germany/Finland. We'll try.

I guess we can explore with DO, but certainly will with Linode.

Which functions are you using?

B2 is object storage. Similar to any object storage you generally want to use it for storing the data, not running heavy analytics directly on it. Usually you'd want to move the data to the directly attached block storage (which our compute partners offer) to run the actual analysis.

By 'similar' do you mean having a German trustee or something else?