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Amazon EBS vs Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage: What are the differences?
Amazon EBS: Block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are network-attached, and persist independently from the life of an instance. Amazon EBS provides highly available, highly reliable, predictable storage volumes that can be attached to a running Amazon EC2 instance and exposed as a device within the instance. Amazon EBS is particularly suited for applications that require a database, file system, or access to raw block level storage; Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage: A Cloud Storage service. It is a generic cloud storage. You can use it from any computer, any operating system or any cloud storage purpose. You can manage and store large amounts of media files using this service.
Amazon EBS and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage can be primarily classified as "Cloud Storage" tools.
We choose Backblaze B2 because it makes more sense for storing static assets.
We admire Backblaze's customer service & transparency, plus, we trust them to maintain fair business practices - including not raising prices in the future.
Lower storage costs means we can keep more data for longer, and lower bandwidth means cache misses don't cost a ton.
Pros of Amazon EBS
- Point-in-time snapshots36
- Data reliability27
- Configurable i/o performance19
Pros of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
- Great API1