Backblaze B2 Now Includes Free Data Transfer to Cloudflare
As founding members of the Bandwidth Alliance, Backblaze joins Cloudflare to bring the best and most cost-efficient experience for their mutual customers
SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Backblaze, a leading cloud storage provider announced a partnership with Cloudflare to deliver amazingly affordable storage and distribution of data stored in Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage platform. Beginning immediately, customers who store data with Backblaze B2 can have Cloudflare CDN access the data with zero transfer fees from B2 to Cloudflare. For customers who use both services, this will happen automatically when their data is transferred from Backblaze to Cloudflare. As part of this partnership, Backblaze has joined Cloudflare as a founding member of the Bandwidth Alliance, a group of like-minded companies driven to provide best of breed internet infrastructure, software and services, that are open, affordable and transparent.
The zero B2 transfer fees are available to all Cloudflare customers using any plan. Cloudflare customers can also use paid add-ons such as Argo and Workers to enhance the routing and security of the B2 files being delivered over the Cloudflare network. The combined solution let's joint customers save up to 75% on cloud storage versus using the Amazon S3 solution to store content in the cloud and deliver it worldwide.
"Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet by making it faster, safer, smarter and more efficient. It was this last point we had in mind when we started looking at bandwidth costs," said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. "The Bandwidth Alliance is the first step in helping customers drive their bandwidth costs close to zero, and we are pleased that forward-looking cloud hosts like Backblaze are joining this movement."
"Backblaze has been the most cost effective cloud storage provider on the planet over the last 10 years. By becoming a founding member of the Bandwidth Alliance and partnering with Cloudflare we are doubling down on our commitment to provide our cloud storage service at a fair, sustainable price with no hidden fees buried in the fine print," stated Gleb Budman, CEO and co-founder at Backblaze.
Founding members of the Bandwidth Alliance include Cloudflare, Backblaze, and other leading cloud and network vendors. To learn more about the Bandwidth Alliance program and all of the members please visit: https://www.cloudflare.com
For an overview of the Backblaze and Cloudflare solution please visit: https://www.backblaze.com/b2 and select "CDN" from the "Solutions" menu.
About Backblaze
Backblaze delivers astonishingly easy-to-use and low-cost cloud storage and cloud backup services. Their B2 Cloud Storage platform is just $0.005/GB/month for data storage and $0.01/GB for data egress or $0.00/GB for data egress to the Cloudflare CDN. For over a decade Backblaze has been the trusted cloud storage provider for tens of thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of users in over 150 countries worldwide. Today, Backblaze stores over 600 petabytes of data on their innovative high density storage pods uniquely arranged into their vastly scalable and performant Backblaze Vault architecture. They are known for their quarterly Hard Drive Stats reports, open-sourcing their Storage Pod design, and generally being an open and transparent company in the otherwise opaque cloud storage industry. For more information on Backblaze please visit http://www.backblaze.com.
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