The growth potential for Backblaze here is immense, and I look forward to seeing how they cope with increased demand. It's much easier for those that are developers to support one API (albeit with a few variations) than many different ones. It makes Backblaze much more accessible to a huge number of customers that aren't developers. 'I really think that this this will be transformative for us in supporting all sorts of use cases and all sorts of customers out there,' said Budman.Īdding the S3 interface makes sense to me. By adding an S3 interface layer, Backblaze has made its B2 service compatible with the broad range of software that already supports S3, and joins a broad ecosystem of other S3-compatible storage providers. 'What we found was that, sure, developers can write to it, but the bulk of people out there are not developers.'īackblaze had been telling customers to pressure their software vendors to support the Backblaze B2 API, and many did, but it seems the customer pressure finally became too great. 'We were assuming that developers were going to write to the API,' Budman said. Make sure you stay ENTIRELY on the Amazon website, and only read Amazon documentation, and use the APIs Amazon talks about (but of course you are doing all of this communicating with the Backblaze Storage Cloud backend).Backblaze is famous for sharing, in great detail, the process of designing, building, and using its Backblaze Storage Pods and its regular disk reliability reports are highly anticipated by storage nerds everywhere.īackblaze had resisted calls to add an S3 compatible API for its B2 storage service, launched five years ago, despite considerable popularity. If you want to find out about Amazon S3 APIs (which you use to communicate to Backblaze's Storage Cloud or Amazon S3) then you can start here.

You can always tell if you are using 'B2 Native' if the call starts with 'b2_' -> then that has literally nothing to do with Amazon S3 compatibility, it is the custom Backblaze protocol.

If you want to use Amazon S3 APIs, you do not call ANYTHING that is documented on the Backblaze website, and you especially should not call 'b2_get_upload_url' because that is a B2 native API, not an Amazon S3 API. how does the presigned URL work? I thought it was this.

Backblaze b2 s3 compatible