BackBlaze

Introduction

BackBlaze is an online secure storage service which is compatible with AWS S3 commands but is a fraction of the cost of AWS S3.

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

Pricing

($/GB/Month)

S3 = $0.021 B2 = $0.005

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

AWS S3 Compatible

Create your bucket in the web admin account and create an API key, then edit your existing AWS CLI config files to add a BackBlaze B2 profile...

~/.aws/config

[b2]
region = eu-central-003
output = json

~/.aws/credentials

[b2]
aws_access_key_id = your b2 app key id
aws_secret_access_key = your b2 app key secret

List all buckets...

aws --profile b2 s3 --endpoint https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com ls

List contents of a bucket...

aws --profile b2 s3 --endpoint https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com ls s3://my-bucket-name/

Upload a file to a bucket...

aws --profile b2 s3 --endpoint https://s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com cp filename.txt s3://my-bucket-name/