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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage vs Minio: What are the differences?
What is 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.
What is Minio? AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go. Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License.
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage and Minio belong to "Cloud Storage" category of the tech stack.
Minio is an open source tool with 16.9K GitHub stars and 1.59K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Minio's open source repository on GitHub.
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 Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
- Great API1
Pros of Minio
- Store and Serve Resumes & Job Description PDF, Backups10
- S3 Compatible8
- Simple4
- Open Source4
- Encryption and Tamper-Proof3
- Lambda Compute3
- Private Cloud Storage2
- Pluggable Storage Backend2
- Scalable2
- Data Protection2
- Highly Available2
- Performance1
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Cons of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Cons of Minio
- Deletion of huge buckets is not possible3