Post Syndicated from Yev original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-hidden-cost-of-cloud-storage-what-400-it-leaders-wish-they-knew-sooner/

Cloud storage was supposed to simplify infrastructure. Instead, it’s become one of the most unpredictable—and expensive—line items in IT budgets.

A new Dimensional Research report, commissioned by Backblaze, reveals that 95% of organizations experience unexpected cloud storage charges—costs that disrupt budgets, slow innovation, and limit flexibility.

The 2025 study surveyed more than 400 IT decision makers responsible for managing at least 250TB of data in the public cloud. The findings make one thing clear: as AI, analytics, and data-intensive workloads expand, hidden costs and limited interoperability are forcing companies to rethink their cloud strategies.

The problem: Hidden fees are everywhere

According to the research, nearly every organization surveyed has been hit by surprise charges like retrieval, egress, or PUT fees.

• 95% of respondents reported unexpected costs for cloud storage usage.
• Larger organizations—those with more than 5PB of data—were even more likely to experience frequent charges.

These hidden costs have become such a burden that 85% of companies are taking steps to manage them. The top tactics include:

• Reducing the size of datasets stored in the cloud (56%)
• Shortening storage duration policies (45%)
• Cutting spending elsewhere in the tech stack (40%)

In short: IT teams are making trade-offs to avoid surprise costs—trade-offs that can limit innovation and reduce the value of their data

Egress costs are locking companies in

One of the most striking findings: 

55% of respondents said that the cost of egressing and moving data is the biggest barrier to switching cloud storage providers.

That means many organizations feel trapped in their current solutions—not because the technology is best-in-class, but because moving their data would be too expensive.

This dynamic creates what’s often called a “walled garden” effect—where providers profit from data lock-in rather than delivering value through performance or innovation.

The result? Slower cloud adoption, limited agility, and higher total cost of ownership for IT teams trying to scale modern workloads.

Flexibility and interoperability are the new imperatives

If cost surprises weren’t enough, nearly all respondents (99%) said that limited flexibility and lack of interoperability are impacting their ability to deliver and scale.

In other words: even when data is stored safely, it’s often stuck—difficult to move, integrate, or use across tools and platforms.

This friction hits hardest at large enterprises and data-heavy organizations that depend on cross-cloud workflows, hybrid architectures, or AI pipelines that require moving large volumes of data frequently.

A turning point for cloud storage strategy

With 62% of respondents preferring to select best of breed providers vs. one-stop-shops, these findings highlight a growing shift:

• IT teams are no longer choosing cloud providers solely based on performance or ecosystem.
• They’re prioritizing predictability, transparency, and interoperability—the ability to move and use data freely, without hidden penalties.

Backblaze has long championed this model with open cloud storage that puts customers—not pricing structures—in control. Our egress fee transparency, S3 compatible APIs, and simple pricing are designed to eliminate the pain points identified in this report.As one respondent put it: “We need a cloud partner that helps us use our data, not pay to move it.”

What’s next: Join the conversation

The full report—The Hidden Cost of Cloud Object Storage—is now available for download. Inside, you’ll find all the data, charts, and insights from 400+ IT leaders across industries and company sizes.

And, to dive deeper into the findings, join us for an upcoming live webinar with experts from Dimensional Research and Backblaze. We’ll unpack the key trends, share real-world stories from IT leaders, and discuss how to build a more transparent, flexible cloud strategy.

About the research

The survey, conducted by Dimensional Research in May–June 2025, included responses from 403 qualified technology stakeholders responsible for cloud storage strategy and budgets. All participants represented companies with over 250TB of data stored in the public cloud.

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Post Syndicated from Maddie Presland original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-reliability-edge-sres-have-been-waiting-for/

Site reliability engineers (SREs) are measured by one thing above all: keeping systems available when it matters most. They’re the ones getting calls at midnight, managing the war room during outages, and preventing small hiccups from snowballing into customer-facing failures.

But storage from major cloud providers often makes their job harder. Tiering delays stretch out recovery times. Replication gaps create blind spots across regions. Complex policy chains flood monitoring systems with noise. Instead of protecting reliability, general-purpose storage often undermines it.

What SREs need is a storage layer that works with them, not against them—one that delivers durability without complexity, speed without cold-tier delays, and clarity without policy sprawl.

A specialized, always-hot storage foundation provides exactly that.

This is the final post in our three-part series on how specialized storage helps every member of a cloud-native team. (See articles one and two to get the full story.) This time, we’re zeroing in on the reliability engineers who keep customer-facing systems humming behind the scenes.

Reliability starts with storage

For SREs, storage is the backbone of availability and recovery. When it falters, the blast radius spreads fast. Even a minor failure can ripple outward and amplify the impact of every incident.

In the sections below, we’ll look at how those ripple effects play out in real-world scenarios, and how specialized, always-hot storage helps SREs contain failures, recover faster, and quiet the noise that makes reliability so hard to sustain.

Contain the blast radius

SREs spend much of their time running “what-if” drills. What if a drive fails? What if a region goes down? What if replication lags behind?

With general-purpose cloud storage, those “what-ifs” become real risks:

• Tiering delays: Infrequently accessed data is automatically pushed into colder, slower tiers. During an incident, archived data such as logs or snapshots must be restored before it’s usable. This slows recovery when seconds count.
• Replication gaps: Replication isn’t always immediate or consistent across regions. When writes lag or copies fall out of sync, recovery data can be stale or incomplete, leaving teams guessing at the true state of their systems.
• Policy complexity: Layers of identity and access management (IAM), lifecycle, and routing policies often overlap in unpredictable ways. A single misconfiguration—like archiving active data or blocking a needed API—can cascade through dependent services, turning a minor error into a wider outage.

Each layer meant to increase flexibility instead adds fragility.

Specialized storage changes that dynamic. Designed for worry-free durability and built to eliminate single points of failure, it distributes data across independent systems so localized issues don’t cascade. Even if hardware fails or a region experiences disruption, data remains accessible and recovery stays predictable. For SREs, that means fewer nightmare scenarios to model, fewer “what-ifs” in runbooks, and faster, more confident recovery.

Cut mean time to recovery (MTTR), protect SLAs

When an incident hits, the SLA clock starts ticking. Every minute spent waiting on logs, snapshots, or configs adds pressure from customers and leadership alike.

But in tiered storage systems, those critical assets are often parked in colder, low-cost tiers meant for archival access rather than fast recovery. Pulling them back can take hours or even days before triage can begin. That latency bloats MTTR and turns manageable events into prolonged outages with real customer impact.

Specialized storage eliminates these bottlenecks. Always-hot data and millisecond reads give SREs immediate visibility into logs, snapshots, and configs, so evidence is available the moment an incident begins. Instead of stalling while waiting on a restore job, teams can dive directly into diagnosis and resolution. The results are faster MTTR, steadier SLA performance, and fewer fire drills turning into headline outages.

Reduce alert fatigue

Ask any SRE what wears them down and the answer comes quickly: false alarms and 3 a.m. wake-ups. The incident itself may be rare, but the noise leading up to it is relentless.

In big-cloud environments, complexity breeds that noise: 

• Lifecycle policies silently archive data until a request fails
• IAM rules misalign with pipeline needs
• Tier transitions or throttling events masquerade as outages in monitoring dashboards. 

Each quirk becomes another alert, another call, another night interrupted. Over time, the noise blends with the signal, and teams start second-guessing what’s real. Alert fatigue sets in. Engineers tune out notifications or delay responses, not from neglect but from exhaustion. The result is a slower reaction when a real outage hits, which is exactly the scenario the alerts were meant to prevent.

Specialized storage dials down the chaos. A single-tier design with clear access controls strips away layers of risk, keeping alerts meaningful and edge cases rare. Instead of burning cycles firefighting brittle rules, SREs can focus on resilience engineering and prevent outages in the first place.

Rethink storage, strengthen reliability

The SRE role is already demanding. Storage shouldn’t add to the burden. An always-hot storage layer gives teams the durability, speed, and simplicity they need to keep systems reliable without extra toil.

Backblaze B2 was built with SREs in mind:

• Architected for 11 nine’s of durability
• Millisecond reads that slash MTTR and protect SLAs.
• Simplified architecture that cuts noise and pager fatigue.

You don’t need to rebuild your stack to get these benefits. Just swap the endpoint and redeploy. With Backblaze B2, storage stops undermining reliability and starts strengthening it.

Tired of midnight pages for preventable storage issues? There’s a better way. Explore how Backblaze B2 fits into your reliability workflows, and how much calmer on-call life feels when storage simply works.

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Post Syndicated from David Johnson original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-storage-fix-devops-has-been-waiting-for/

Developer operations (DevOps) engineers sit at the intersection of development and operations. Their job is to keep pipelines humming, environments consistent, and deployments on schedule, all while juggling uptime, costs, and compliance.

This balancing act leaves little tolerance for surprises. Unfortunately, storage from major cloud providers often delivers exactly that. Built to cover every use case from backups to analytics to streaming, general-purpose storage prioritizes breadth over focus. The result is complexity:

• Tiering rules that shift data unexpectedly
• Pricing models that change with every access pattern
• Dependencies that ripple across services

For DevOps, this type of one-size-fits-all system means hidden costs, shifting performance, and integration headaches right when predictability matters most.

The good news: you don’t need to overhaul your entire stack to regain control. Adding a specialized, always-hot storage layer can resolve DevOps engineers’ biggest storage headaches without forcing major workflow changes.

This post is the second in our three-part series on how specialized storage helps every member of a cloud-native team, including developers, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers (SREs). Today, we’ll focus on the payoffs for DevOps engineers.

Storage that works the way DevOps does

For DevOps engineers, storage issues often show up in the middle of critical workflows. A change meant to speed deployments triggers cascading adjustments. A spike in access patterns turns into sprawling invoices and finance tickets. A misaligned rule blocks data right when pipelines need it most.

In the sections below, we’ll dig into how these problems derail day-to-day operations, and how purpose-built cloud storage removes the friction so DevOps teams can stay focused on building and delivering.

Migration without migraines

Swapping a storage layer usually comes with the fear of broken pipelines, incompatible APIs, or weeks of retraining. And the big three cloud providers compound this by tying services together so tightly that even small changes can ripple through deployments. 

That means a tweak meant to improve storage can unexpectedly force adjustments in compute, networking, or identity and access management (IAM). Now, you’re slowing down releases instead of speeding them up.

Specialized storage avoids this trap. With drop-in S3 compatibility and no tier juggling, adding it to your stack requires little more than updating an endpoint and credentials. Pipelines keep running, Terraform and Kubernetes scripts stay intact, and deployments continue smoothly, so storage upgrades feel like routine maintenance, not full migrations.

Invoices without inquisitions

Engineers shouldn’t have to be accountants. But with major cloud providers, storage costs often spike without warning when charges are tied to shifting access patterns, such as frequent reads, writes, or transfers. 

The result is sprawling invoices packed with egress fees, API surcharges, and delete penalties. Finance teams see the bill and demand answers. DevOps teams could spend hours untangling storage math instead of improving automation or hardening pipelines. Every unexplained charge turns into a ticket, and every ticket drags engineers away from engineering.

Specialized storage removes this ordeal. Flat, transparent pricing and no hidden penalties make costs easy to predict and explain. That clarity keeps tickets low and escalations rare. DevOps teams can walk into finance reviews with confidence, backed by numbers that are simple to explain.

Engineering without entanglements

Major cloud provider environments come with a maze of tiers, lifecycle policies, IAM rules, and cross-service dependencies. Managing these isn’t a one-time task; it’s a cycle of effort that eats into engineering time:

• Writing: Defining lifecycle policies and IAM rules to control when data moves between tiers or who can access it.
• Testing: Validating every rule to make sure it doesn’t archive active data, block critical access, or violate compliance requirements.
• Maintaining: Updating policies as workloads evolve, with new buckets, new services, or shifting security mandates.
• Troubleshooting: Debugging typos, misaligned automations, or unexpected interactions that can lead to outages, delays, or surprise costs.

For DevOps, every new policy is another layer of overhead and another chance for something to break. 

Specialized storage ends this cycle. With no lifecycle rules to script or tiers to monitor, you don’t have to spend hours debugging brittle policies. That reclaimed time goes back into what matters: strengthening automation, refining observability, and improving the pipelines your developers depend on.

Growth without gridlock

DevOps isn’t just about keeping today’s pipelines running; it’s also about ensuring infrastructure won’t collapse under tomorrow’s demands.

As organizations layer on AI/ML pipelines, streaming services, or analytics workloads, data volumes surge and access patterns become less predictable. General-purpose storage often struggles under these conditions, throttling performance and forcing DevOps engineers into troubleshooting slowdowns and capacity crunches whenever workloads outpace storage. 

Specialized storage meets these challenges. Its high throughput and penalty-free design scale with demand, so performance holds steady even as workloads expand. Whether supporting AI training jobs or streaming analytics, your infrastructure grows without bottlenecks—and without turning DevOps into crisis management.

Rethink your storage, not your stack

The demands on DevOps engineers aren’t slowing down. They’re expected to deliver speed, reliability, and cost control, all at once. The wrong storage layer makes that harder; the right one makes it easier.

Backblaze B2 was built to make DevOps engineers’ lives easier: 

• Minimal changes: S3-compatible APIs work with Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and more.
• Predictable costs: Transparent pricing and little-to-no egress fees.
• Simplified operations: Always-hot access, no tier juggling, no lifecycle headaches.
• Future-ready: High throughput and AI-ready integrations.

You don’t have to rebuild your stack to gain these benefits. Just swap the storage endpoint, redeploy, and get back to engineering.

Tired of troubleshooting tiers or decoding invoices? There’s a simpler path forward. Explore how Backblaze B2 fits into your DevOps workflows, and how much smoother things run when storage isn’t slowing you down.

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Post Syndicated from David Johnson original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-cloud-native-developers-need-a-specialized-storage-layer/

Cloud-native developers move fast. Continuous integration and continuous development/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, containerized environments, and growing performance demands leave little room for delays. Even small bottlenecks can slow momentum, and a common source of slowdown is storage.

Most cloud-native teams default to storage from major cloud providers because it’s convenient and deeply integrated with other services, such as compute, networking, and machine learning (ML). But that convenience isn’t always optimized for development velocity. These platforms prioritize flexibility for a wide range of use cases, not the consistency and speed that fast-moving dev teams need. 

Here’s the good news: Adding a specialized, always-hot storage layer can reduce friction and unlock faster, smoother development—without changing the tools you already use.

This post kicks off a three-part series on how specialized cloud storage benefits every member of a cloud-native team: developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs. 

First up: the developer.

When storage slows you down and how to fix it

When storage underperforms, it disrupts your development loop. Cold-tier delays, unpredictable time to first byte (TTFB), and inconsistent throughput take time away from building and shipping applications, or from supporting AI/ML workloads that depend on fast, consistent data access.

In the sections below, we look at how these issues show up in practice and how specialized cloud storage can help remove the roadblocks to faster development.

Build-test loops without the bottleneck

Fast feedback loops are the heartbeat of cloud-native development. Every delay in retrieving files, artifacts, or dependencies drags out build-test cycles and can also slow AI/ML workloads that rely on quick, repeated access to large datasets.

Delays often come from the way cloud providers structure tiered storage. Data is divided into hot, cool, and cold tiers. While cooler tiers cost less, they’re built for retention, not speed. When builds depend on files stored in these tiers, retrieving them adds latency.

Lifecycle policies compound this by automatically moving files into cooler tiers if they haven’t been accessed for a set period. When developers need those files again, they first have to retrieve them from a slower tier, adding latency and sometimes fees.

A specialized, always-hot storage layer eliminates these delays by removing tiers and retrieval hurdles altogether. All data stays instantly accessible, so artifacts and dependencies are always ready the moment they’re needed. Builds run without waiting for restores, tests execute without interruption, and feedback loops stay tight.

Consistent throughput, no tuning required

With general-purpose storage from major cloud providers, consistent performance doesn’t come out of the box. Developers are left to manage it themselves, often through manual tweaks such as file-size tuning or other trial-and-error adjustments.

But tuning only goes so far. Even if developers adjust file sizes or request patterns, those tweaks can’t overcome the built-in delays of tiered storage systems. To compensate, many teams add caching layers or complex configurations. Those workarounds may patch performance gaps in the short term, but they create their own set of burdens:

• Extra rules and scripts: Moving data between tiers or maintaining caches often requires custom automation.
• Added complexity: Each workaround becomes another system to monitor and maintain, increasing the risk of errors.
• Slower workflows: Rather than focusing on development, teams burn time managing storage mechanics.

Specialized storage eliminates the need for tuning or caching altogether. With high-throughput performance available from the start, developers don’t have to waste time building or maintaining workarounds. No scripts, no caches, and no trial-and-error.

Predictable performance under real workloads

General-purpose cloud storage can stumble when workloads scale. Because storage is tightly coupled with compute, networking, and access controls in big cloud providers’ environments, conflicts between these layers can slow requests or, in some cases, cause downtime. 

These mismatches happen for several reasons:

• Competing goals: Major cloud providers build storage to handle many use cases at once, but that broad design isn’t optimized for any one workload. Compute jobs, in particular, demand consistent speed. The result is a mismatch: infrastructure built for broad efficiency can struggle to deliver reliable performance when applications scale in production, or when AI pipelines push storage and compute simultaneously.
• Complex rules: In big cloud provider environments, storage doesn’t operate in isolation. Access controls, security policies, and service dependencies pile up across layers, and they don’t always work in sync. A permission, routing choice, or automation can create unexpected bottlenecks when combined with other rules.
• Network constraints: High egress and cross-region transfer fees discourage data from moving freely between services or locations. Teams may delay or limit transfers to avoid unexpected costs, but that hesitation creates bottlenecks when workloads need to pull data across clouds or regions.

Together, these issues create hidden instability. Performance that seems fine in testing can falter in production as heavier workloads expose bottlenecks and small delays ripple through applications. 

Specialized storage removes this uncertainty by eliminating the hidden conflicts that come from tightly coupled, general-purpose systems. With reliable, low-latency access that stays steady even under production load, teams don’t have to scramble to fix surprises mid-release. 

It’s time to rethink the storage layer

You don’t need to rip and replace your entire cloud strategy to get better performance. You just need to be strategic about which layers serve which purposes.

For cloud-native developers, that means choosing storage that keeps pace with your workflows, so you can move fast, stay in flow, and focus on code instead of configuration.

Backblaze B2 was built with developers in mind:

• Always-hot access to every object.
• S3-compatible APIs that work with your existing tools.
• Enterprise-grade reliability with the best price to performance in the industry.

Because it plugs directly into the tools you already use, you can add Backblaze B2 to your stack without rewriting workflows or retraining teams. Instead of working around storage, you finally get storage that works with you.

Tired of babysitting your storage or coding around its quirks? There’s a better way. Explore how Backblaze B2 fits into your cloud-native stack, and how much faster things can move when builds run without bottlenecks, performance stays consistent, and new features ship without delay.

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Post Syndicated from Kari Rivas original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-truth-about-cloud-security-costs-why-high-costs-dont-always-mean-better-protection/

When evaluating cloud providers, cost is often the most visible factor—but in enterprise IT, information security (InfoSec), and compliance, security is always the first (and likely most important) concern. As a technology leader, you know that determining “acceptable” risk is a moving target, but you’re likely also regularly squeezed by budget pressures and a mandate to contribute to the company’s bottom line. 

Taking a chance on providers with lower price tags might feel like too big of a risk—lower-cost providers must be sacrificing something, and all too often, that something is security. Right?

It’s a fair question, but the answer might surprise you. Today, we’re talking about how specialized cloud providers provide surprising value—and even provide security benefits—when compared with traditional, hyperscaler architectures. Let’s talk about what you need to know to evaluate a cloud provider’s security posture.

How specialized cloud providers provide security benefits

In theory, cloud architecture encourages redundancy. But in practice, many companies—even those using multi-cloud strategies—tend to consolidate key services like authentication and orchestration with a single vendor. When that vendor’s services go down, it doesn’t matter that your data is replicated across three availability zones in the same data center. If you can’t log in to access it, your redundancy becomes purely theoretical. This year alone, there have been major outages that had widespread consequences from the likes of Google, IBM cloud, and others.

Specialized cloud providers and multi-cloud strategies provide inherent benefits here.

• Vendor transparency: Open cloud providers publish clear, detailed practices around architecture, encryption, and compliance rather than burying them behind opaque marketing claims. This transparency allows your teams to independently validate security assurances.
• Avoiding lock-in: Multi-cloud strategies ensure you’re not beholden to a single vendor’s security practices. If one provider falls short, data replication and redundancy across platforms can maintain both compliance and resilience.
• Risk distribution: By spreading workloads across providers, organizations mitigate the risk of a single point of failure, outage, or vendor breach.
• Compliance flexibility: Different providers may align more strongly with specific frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.), giving enterprises options to meet evolving regulatory demands.

This means that organizations don’t have to choose between cost efficiency and security—they can and should get both.

How to evaluate a cloud provider’s security posture

Choosing the right cloud provider isn’t just about price, features, or performance—it’s about knowing they can safeguard your data and prove it. Here are key areas to assess:

1. Architecture & physical security
   • Does the provider operate its own infrastructure or rely on generic colocation facilities?
   • What physical safeguards (biometrics, restricted access, surveillance) protect the data centers?
2. Encryption & data protection
   • Is data encrypted both in transit (TLS/SSL) and at rest (AES-256 or equivalent)?
   • Are key management options available, including customer-managed keys?
   • Is immutability (Object Lock or write once, read many (WORM) storage) supported for ransomware defense?
3. Access & identity controls
   • Are granular permissioning and role-based access (RBAC) controls available?
   • Does the provider support single sign on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and integration with enterprise identity systems?
   • Can admins maintain clear audit logs of all access and changes?
4. Compliance & certifications
   • Which third-party attestations does the provider maintain (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, ISO)?
   • Can they provide signed agreements (such as Business Associate Agreements (BAAs)) as needed for regulated industries?
5. Resilience & multi-cloud strategy
   • Do they offer replication across regions or the ability to integrate into a multi-cloud strategy?
   • How quickly can you move workloads or data out if you need to change vendors or access data in case of emergency?

By using this evaluation framework, IT leaders can look past marketing promises and price tags, focusing on verifiable controls and independent certifications.

The hyperscaler tax for cloud security

Many enterprises assume that higher cloud storage costs from hyperscalers like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud translate directly into better security. In reality, much of that premium is a “hyperscaler tax” driven by complex business models, bundled services, and legacy infrastructure—not inherently superior protection. Specialized cloud providers can often deliver the same enterprise-grade security controls—encryption, compliance certifications, access management—without the inflated price tag, proving that security and affordability are not mutually exclusive.

Building a better mousetrap: The innovation behind Backblaze B2

From the beginning, Backblaze has architected its storage solution to be both performant and cost-effective. And, by specializing in storage (as opposed to the myriad of solutions offered by, say, Amazon Web Services and other hyperscalers), Backblaze is able to optimize for the economics of storage and storage alone.

To help you get past the price tag and into the technical details, let’s break down the pillars of Backblaze B2 security and compliance.

Architecture and physical security: The foundation of trust

Our security starts with our physical infrastructure. Our data centers are designed for 11 nines of data durability and are staffed 24/7/365. They feature:

• Best-in-class security features: Biometric security, ID checks, and multi-layered access controls.
• A purpose-built infrastructure: From Backblaze Storage Pods to projects like Shard Stash and ongoing feature releases, the Backblaze platform is designed for maximum data durability and security.

This physical and architectural security is the bedrock of our service, and it’s backed by industry-standard certifications like SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Data storage security: Protecting data at rest and in transit

Data security is a core tenet of our platform. From the moment your data leaves your system until it is stored on our pods, it is protected by multiple layers of encryption.

• Encryption in transit: All files are transmitted to Backblaze B2 using an encrypted TLS connection.
• Encryption at rest: Your data is encrypted before it is stored on disk. We offer two options for server-side encryption with 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256):
  • Server-side encryption (SSE) with Backblaze managed keys (SSE-B2): We handle the key management for you, providing seamless, built-in protection.
  • SSE with customer managed keys (SSE-C): For organizations with strict compliance requirements, you can manage your own keys, giving you complete control over your data’s access.
• Object Lock for immutability: Our Object Lock feature provides a powerful layer of ransomware protection. Using a write-once, read-many (WORM) model, it prevents files from being modified, manipulated, or deleted for a customer-determined retention period. This is an essential tool for compliance and disaster recovery.
• Cloud Replication: For businesses with high-availability or geographical redundancy requirements, Backblaze B2 supports automatic replication of data across different regions, ensuring your data is always available and safe from regional outages or other incidents.

Access management security: Granting control and ensuring accountability

Controlling who can access your data is paramount. We provide granular, enterprise-grade access management controls that give you full command over your storage:

• Fine-grained API key control: Create and manage accounts, groups, and specific data access permissions with robust API key control.
• Multi-factor authentication (MFA) & single sign-on (SSO): We offer multiple account authentication options, including MFA and SSO via providers like Google Workspace and Office 365, to prevent unauthorized access.
• Comprehensive logging: Backblaze provides detailed logs and reports on all activities within your account, so you can maintain a clear audit trail.

Compliance: Demonstrating our commitment to best practices

Security is not just a feature; it’s a commitment that’s verified by independent third parties. Backblaze has achieved a number of security and compliance attestations, including:

• SOC 2, Type 2: We have been independently audited and certified for SOC 2, Type 2 compliance, demonstrating our commitment to protecting customer data.
• HIPAA: For business customers who are Covered Entities under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), we can provide a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) upon request.
• PCI-DSS: Backblaze’s adherence to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is supported by our use of Stripe to handle card information and our internal security controls.
• GDPR: We adhere to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy policies and provide Data Processing Agreement Addendums (DPAs) for EEA/EU and UK residents.

While some competitors may also offer these certifications, Backblaze’s pricing model is built to ensure you don’t have to pay a premium for them. Our efficiencies mean that we can pass the savings directly to you without compromising on the security and compliance that your business demands.

Specialized cloud storage: Enabling enterprises to evaluate their best options

In the end, our goal is to free you from the false choice between security and affordability. The reality is that the high cost of some cloud providers is a result of their complex, multi-tiered business models—not a reflection of superior security. Backblaze’s commitment to building a focused, innovative, and transparent cloud storage solution allows us to deliver on our promise: enterprise-grade security and compliance, at a fraction of the cost.

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Post Syndicated from David Johnson original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-storage-myths-debunked-part-four-managing-multiple-clouds-is-too-complicated/

Today’s myth feels familiar, because it’s exactly what major cloud providers want you to believe:

Multi-cloud? Sounds like a recipe for chaos. Best stick with one and avoid the hassle.

On the surface, it sounds reasonable. The “big three” clouds promote their all-in-one ecosystems as seamless and unified. One provider, one bill, one console. That should make life easier, right?

Not so fast. The promise of simplicity often hides a different reality: deep complexity, rigid architecture, and vendor lock-in. For many cloud-native teams, what’s pitched as convenience ends up costing time, money, and agility.

This is the final post in our blog series debunking persistent myths about cloud storage. (You can read the first, second, and third articles in the series to get up-to-date.) And, if you’ve ever been told that multi-cloud is messy or risky, this one’s for you.

Integrated ≠ simple

The idea that one provider equals less overhead is seductive. But in practice, integration can mean entanglement. Instead of reducing operational drag, it creates a tightly woven web of interdependent services and proprietary systems, which makes changes slow and expensive.

The all-in-one trap

Big cloud providers’ platforms are sprawling by design. They’re built to meet every need under one roof. However, the supposed benefit of simplicity falls apart once you actually start using that provider’s full range of services. 

When it comes to storage alone, teams must navigate:

• Multi-tier systems (hot, cool, cold) with different costs, speeds, and access methods, each requiring its own performance and cost configuration.
• Complex lifecycle policies and scripts to automate data movement between tiers.

• Intricate IAM setups to manage roles, policies, and permissions across services.

• Proprietary APIs and tooling that create migration headaches and limit portability.
• Console UIs and behaviors that change depending on region or storage class, adding to the learning curve.

• Deep interdependencies across services, where a small change in storage can ripple through compute, networking, and security layers.

What starts as a unified experience quickly becomes a maze of shifting rules and unstable configurations. And the more deeply your architecture relies on these moving parts, the more frustrating your operations become.

Frustration, not flexibility

Not only is it tedious to manage all of this, but it can be risky. Miss a lifecycle rule, and you might incur unexpected fees. Misconfigure access policies, and you could lose visibility into or even access to your own data.

These aren’t edge cases. They’re everyday realities in cloud-native environments where time is tight, systems are complex, and DevOps teams are stretched thin. Here’s what that might look like in practice:

• A developer spins up a test environment without realizing data is landing in a high-cost tier.
• An SRE responds to a latency issue, only to discover the data lives in cold storage and restoring it generates retrieval costs and delays.
• A backup job fails silently because of a permissions misconfiguration buried deep in nested IAM roles.

And when something breaks, support isn’t always fast or personal. Unless you’re a top-tier customer, you’re likely working through ticketing systems, documentation loops, or community forums.

These moments don’t just cause frustration—they drain time, inflate costs, and hinder your team’s ability to move fast with confidence.

Complexity isn’t a multi-cloud problem. It’s a design problem.

Let’s revisit the myth: Multi-cloud is too complicated.

It’s an understandable concern, but one that’s often based on frustration inside a major cloud provider’s ecosystem. When teams talk about complexity, they’re usually describing the friction that comes from navigating sprawling services, managing brittle configurations, and troubleshooting opaque policies within one provider.

The real issue isn’t how many clouds you use. It’s how much complexity one provider can introduce when you try to adapt, integrate, or scale. Vendor-specific tooling, tightly coupled services, and unpredictable costs create the illusion of simplicity—until you need to do something the platform didn’t anticipate.

That’s not a multi-cloud problem. That’s a design problem.

Making multi-cloud work for you

For many teams, multi-cloud isn’t a grand strategy, but something that happens organically. AI workloads move to GPU providers. Content gets delivered through specialized CDNs. Backups shift to more cost-effective and geographically separated storage. Whether by design or necessity, most modern architectures already span multiple clouds.

So the smarter question isn’t “Should we avoid it?” It’s “How do we make it sustainable without adding unnecessary complexity?”

That’s where Backblaze B2 comes in.

Backblaze B2 is purpose-built to make multi-cloud not only possible, but practical—for DevOps, SREs, and developers alike. It’s focused, interoperable, and refreshingly straightforward:

• Always-hot storage: No tier juggling. No lifecycle scripts. Just fast, consistent access.
• S3-compatible APIs: Seamlessly integrates with the tools and platforms you already use, such as Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, boto3, and more.

• Streamlined IAM and UI: Control access and monitor usage without wading through layers of enterprise-grade configuration.

• Free egress: Move data where you need it and when you need to, without the surprise charges that make multi-cloud cost-prohibitive.

Many teams start small with offloading archives, mirroring backup buckets, or feeding GPU pipelines for AI training. As modular architectures grow, Backblaze B2 scales with them, but without the rigidity or lock-in.

In fact, a 2025 Enterprise Strategy Group study found that many operational tasks, such as storage deployments, storage management, and integration with the hardware and software that they already used took up to 92% less time.

The simple interface contrasted sharply with other Cloud Service Providers’ interfaces that have confusing navigation and multiple options to sort through.

—Enterprise Strategy Group, “Analyzing the Economic Benefits of the Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Platform,” May 2025.

Multi-cloud doesn’t have to be messy. With the right storage layer, it becomes your cleanest, most strategic advantage.

Want to dig even deeper?

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Post Syndicated from Kari Rivas original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-gold-standard-of-cloud-security-why-our-soc2-type-2-compliance-sets-backblaze-apart/

As more organizations rely on the cloud to store critical data, the stakes around compliance and security keep rising. Regulations like GDPR and HIPAA are putting pressure on businesses to demonstrate that their data handling practices are sound, and customers increasingly want evidence—not just assurances—that their data is protected.

Every cloud provider claims to be “secure.” But as a risk owner and decision-maker, you need more than a marketing tagline. You need proof. That’s where SOC 2 Type 2 compliance comes in. At Backblaze, we don’t just meet this benchmark—we go beyond it. Unlike many cloud storage providers (CSPs) that may have only SOC 2 compliant data centers, Backblaze has also undergone the rigorous SOC 2 assessment at the company level.

What is SOC 2, and why does it matter?

SOC 2 (aka System and Organization Controls) is an assessment created by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). It evaluates how service providers operate based on Trust Services Criteria:

• Security
• Availability
• Confidentiality
• Privacy
• Processing integrity

Every SOC 2 assessment includes Security as the foundation, and organizations may also be evaluated against additional criteria that align with their services. Our assessment covers both Security and Availability, demonstrating that our systems are protected against unauthorized access and are resilient, reliable, and consistently accessible when you need them.

At Backblaze, we’ve put the right controls in place to meet these standards, such as:

• Strong access management policies.
• Redundant infrastructure to protect uptime.
• Regular penetration testing and incident response reviews.

The business impact? You can rely on us to keep your data safe and accessible—without adding unnecessary risk to your operations.

Type 1 vs. Type 2: A key distinction

There are two types of SOC 2 examinations:

• Type 1 shows that a company has the right controls in place at a specific point in time.
• Type 2 goes further by validating that those controls are consistently followed and effective over a defined period.

Backblaze has achieved and consistently maintained SOC 2 Type 2 compliance. That distinction matters—it means you’re not just trusting that we say the right things, but that we do the right things, day in and day out.

What SOC 2 compliance delivers

SOC 2 compliance isn’t just a checkbox exercise. It provides meaningful assurances that directly affect your business:

• Risk mitigation: Independent validation that controls work as intended.
• Trust and credibility: Confidence that your cloud provider takes security seriously.
• Vendor due diligence: Simplifies compliance reviews for your team.
• Data integrity & availability: Assurance that your data remains reliable and accessible.

In short, SOC 2 compliance reduces uncertainty—making it easier for you to move forward with cloud adoption and scale with confidence.

SOC 2 data centers vs. SOC 2 as a company

It’s important to distinguish between compliance at the data center level and compliance at the company level.

• SOC 2 compliant data centers: These examinations focus on the physical facility—things like access controls, environmental monitoring, and fire suppression. Many CSPs rely on SOC 2 certified facilities.
• SOC 2 compliance as a company: This examination covers the provider’s internal operations, including policies, processes, and personnel practices. It examines how the service is built, run, and maintained.

Backblaze offers both. Our data centers are SOC 2 compliant, and our company is also SOC 2 Type 2 compliant.

Think of it like a bank: Secure vaults are critical (data centers), but so are strong internal policies and trained staff (company compliance). And, of course, you want both. That’s what we call defense in depth—end-to-end assurance that reduces risk and builds trust.

Surprisingly, you’ll find that many CSPs have SOC 2 data centers, but do not hold SOC 2 compliance at the company level.

Inside the SOC 2 audit process

SOC 2 evaluations are performed by independent third-party CPA firms, which ensures the results are objective and credible. The process includes:

1. Scoping: Identifying which systems and processes are reviewed.
2. Control documentation: Recording policies and procedures.
3. Evidence collection: Proving that controls are in place.
4. Testing & evaluation: Verifying effectiveness over time.
5. Reporting: Delivering findings in a formal report.

At Backblaze, this isn’t a one-and-done exercise. We undergo annual audits, maintain robust monitoring, and test our systems regularly. For example:

• Incident response plans, playbooks, and processes are reviewed and updated as needed. 
• Penetration testing, the public bug bounty program, and our vulnerability management processes are designed to proactively identify, evaluate, prioritize, and remediate potential vulnerabilities.   
• Change management ensures updates don’t introduce unnecessary risk.

Each step reinforces our commitment to security and transparency—so you don’t have to take our word for it.

Policies that protect your data

Policies and processes are the backbone of an effective SOC 2 program. At Backblaze, these policies aren’t just written down; they’re embedded in how we operate every day.

Change management (Security, Availability)

Changes that impact our systems, infrastructure, or software are controlled, tested, and approved before release. This prevents unauthorized or accidental changes that could disrupt operations or compromise security. For customers, this means you can rely on a stable, reliable storage platform that won’t jeopardize your workflows.

Logging & monitoring (Security, Availability)

We log system activities, monitor access attempts, and alert on high priority security events around the clock. We have implemented features such as Anomaly Alerts to support notifying customers about  unusual file upload and download patterns. Bucket Access Logs give you visibility into who accessed your data and when—adding both accountability and an audit trail for incident response.

Media handling & drive destruction (Security)

Physical media like drives are tightly controlled throughout their lifecycle. When a drive reaches end-of-life, it undergoes a secure erasure process. If it is not able to be securely erased, the device is destroyed, ensuring data is completely unrecoverable.

Environmental security (Availability)

Protecting data also means protecting the environment where it lives. Our data centers are equipped with redundant power and cooling systems, fire suppression, and environmental monitoring. Facilities are staffed 24/7/365 to respond to incidents in real time. These measures ensure uptime and business continuity—even in the face of physical disruptions like outages or natural disasters.

Each of these policies maps directly back to Trust Services Criteria, but more importantly, they translate into reduced risk, stronger reliability, and greater peace of mind for your business.

Why Backblaze stands apart

If you’re evaluating cloud storage providers, you can request a copy of our SOC 2 Type 2 report through Whistic. Backblaze currently offers 3 profiles on Whistic: Education Industry profile link, EU Customers profile link, or All Other Customers profile link. Once you have signed up, or signed in, you will be able to view or download the applicable documents and questionnaires.

Backblaze’s combination of SOC 2 compliant data centers and company-wide SOC 2 Type 2 compliance provides a higher level of assurance than many providers offer. That additional assurance is a powerful differentiator, especially for businesses in regulated industries.

And we’re not stopping here. Security isn’t static. We commit to annual assessments, continuous monitoring, and adapting to new threats as they emerge—so you can trust that your data is in good hands today, tomorrow, and beyond.

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Post Syndicated from David Johnson original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-storage-myths-debunked-part-three-onboarding-specialized-providers-is-too-hard/

Here’s a myth we hear again and again:

Integrating a new storage provider is too complicated. Migrating data, retraining teams, and reconfiguring tools will take too long and create too much risk.

It’s understandable. Data migrations have a reputation for being messy and disruptive. And let’s be honest, nobody wants to babysit infrastructure when there are products to build. For many teams, just the thought of switching cloud providers feels like a detour they don’t have time for.

But in reality, that fear is often bigger than the actual lift. If your workflows already use standard tooling like S3-compatible APIs, switching to a specialized provider is more like a well-marked exit than a hard left turn.

This is the third post in our series debunking persistent myths about cloud storage—check out the first and second posts—and why a best-of-breed, interoperable approach is actually less disruptive than sticking with legacy hyperscaler models.

Migration anxiety vs. reality

“Storage migration” can sound like it requires weeks of planning and an army of engineers. But if your apps are already using S3-compatible workflows, most of the heavy lifting is already done.

If you know S3, you’re already ready

Many specialized storage providers now support S3-compatible APIs, allowing teams to keep the tools, scripts, and services they already know, such as Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, boto3, and MinIO.

And because your teams are already familiar with the S3 API and related tools, retraining isn’t a hurdle. The same skills, scripts, and automation frameworks carry forward, keeping onboarding time minimal. In fact, most teams are surprised by how little they need to change to get started.

That means:

• No need to learn a new SDK or storage interface
• No retraining your DevOps team
• No rewriting automation pipelines or batch jobs

In most cases, all it takes is updating your endpoint URL and refreshing credentials. The mental model stays the same, the tools stay the same, and your workflows continue as-is.

You don’t need to rip and replace

Downtime concerns are one of the biggest sources of hesitation when switching providers. But in practice, migrations to S3-compatible cloud storage providers rarely require full cutovers or risky, all-or-nothing switchovers. With a bit of planning, most teams handle migrations incrementally:

• Start by migrating lower-risk datasets, such as backups or archives.
• Validate configurations and permissions as data lands in the new system.
• Slowly expand to production datasets as confidence grows.

Better yet, you don’t have to move everything at once. Many teams adopt phased transitions, running some buckets side-by-side or writing to both systems during the handoff to minimize risk. With a bit of planning and the right migration tools and guidance, you can keep operations stable while gradually shifting workloads at a comfortable pace.

Metadata isn’t a blocker

Migrating files without metadata continuity can break downstream systems, especially if your applications rely on timestamps or version tracking.

Fear not. S3-compatible cloud storage providers can preserve metadata during migration, including timestamps. That means your historical data stays intact and compliant with internal policies or regulatory needs, and you won’t need to reset or alter your data management policies.

Moving isn’t the risk. Staying locked in is.

Let’s flip the narrative. The real risk isn’t switching; it’s staying stuck.

Major cloud provider ecosystems are designed for lock-in. The deeper you go, the harder it becomes to leave. Features that look like conveniences, such as integrated IAM policies, tiered storage, and custom APIs, often become entanglements over time.

Each of these layers is built to reinforce reliance:

• IAM rules tie access tightly to the provider’s own tooling.
• Tiered storage creates dependencies on lifecycle rules and retrieval thresholds. 
• Custom APIs mean even basic storage functions can require provider-specific logic.

And as you expand your usage—adding compute, networking, and security services—everything becomes interdependent. What starts as convenience evolves into constraint. Even small changes to your stack can trigger cascading reviews, system audits, or full reconfigurations.

The result? Innovation slows. Costs creep up. Flexibility disappears.

With a specialized provider, you break that cycle.

Specialized Doesn’t Mean Complicated

Specialized storage doesn’t complicate onboarding. It streamlines it. Solutions like Backblaze B2 are purpose-built to make this shift smooth and sustainable, without the trade-offs or surprises you might expect from switching providers.

• S3 compatibility allows for seamless integration with the tools and workflows your team already uses.

• Granular control means you can choose the tools and providers that work best for your architecture, not the ones bundled into a vendor’s ecosystem.

• Metadata continuity is supported through features like custom upload timestamps, preserving file context during migration.

• Transparent pricing ensures there are no hidden egress fees, transaction charges, or retention penalties to catch you off guard.
• Hands-on support helps you plan, validate, and scale your migration with confidence and minimal disruption.

Breaking out of a single-vendor ecosystem may feel intimidating, but it’s often the fastest way to simplify operations, improve performance, and regain control over your cloud strategy.

The best part? Once you’ve made the move, you’re free to experiment. Multi-cloud strategies become more accessible. Your architecture becomes more modular. And your team can focus on building, not babysitting infrastructure.

Next Up: In the final post in this series, we’ll tackle Myth #4: Managing multiple clouds is complicated. (Spoiler: It doesn’t have to be.)

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Post Syndicated from David Johnson original https://www.backblaze.com/blog/cloud-storage-myths-debunked-part-two-storage-isnt-a-big-enough-problem-to-remediate/

Today’s myth might sound familiar:

Storage is a minor cost, so it’s not worth switching from major cloud providers.

It’s easy to see how this thinking takes hold. In many cloud-native projects, storage can be the last concern. Compute, networking, and database services often drive most of the costs. Storage? That’s just where your data sits.

But hidden fees, unpredictable retrieval charges, and surprising performance constraints make storage far more impactful than many teams realize—especially for cloud-native workflows.

This post is the second in our blog series unpacking four of the most common myths and misconceptions about specialized cloud storage—see the first post here—and why an interoperable, best-of-breed approach can enhance and streamline cloud-native app development.

Underestimate the importance of storage at your peril

Major cloud providers offer plenty of storage options, but the real costs aren’t always clear up front. 

The charges you don’t see coming

Between egress charges, API call fees, transaction costs, and minimum retention charges, even small changes in how your application moves or retrieves data can quickly inflate your bill.

What looked affordable at launch can snowball into sticker shock once traffic increases or new workloads start driving more data in and out of storage. A single spike in user activity or analytics queries can trigger thousands (or millions) of storage transactions, each billed individually.

These expenses add up fast, and they’re tough to predict.

The egress trap

Egress charges might be one of the best-kept open secrets among the “big three” cloud providers. Every time data leaves their environment—whether to a CDN, another cloud, or end users—egress fees kick in. And they aren’t trivial.

Frequent data transfers, a hallmark of cloud-native architectures, can quietly devour budgets. The big dogs know this. Once your data is deep in their ecosystem, pulling it out becomes financially painful.

This creates a subtle but powerful form of vendor lock-in, making it harder to shift workloads or storage to more specialized providers.

Vendor lock-in, by design

Major cloud providers bundle storage, compute, networking, and a long list of services into tightly coupled ecosystems. On paper, that integration offers convenience. In practice, it creates real friction if you ever want to move.

Even when using open standards like the S3 API, migrating workloads can require new tooling, careful planning, and extensive testing. Under tight deadlines, the mere prospect of switching providers can feel too risky to attempt.

It’s not just inertia; it’s engineered friction designed to keep you tethered.

Complex storage slows down everything

Bundling storage inside a big cloud provider’s stack might seem efficient, but it often creates fragile setups that slow teams down. Configurations get complicated fast:

• Hot and cold storage tiers
• Lifecycle rules
• IAM policies
• Interdependent compute pipelines

Every added layer increases the odds that something breaks, pulling engineers into troubleshooting instead of building.

Latency-sensitive workloads such as real-time analytics or streaming services are especially vulnerable. Even small missteps can ripple through the user experience.

And when those issues hit, teams scramble to patch things up, burning time and resources that could be better spent moving products forward.

AI workloads bring storage costs into sharp focus

AI-powered applications, from model training to updating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, put heavy demands on storage. These workloads hammer systems with high-throughput reads and writes.

Each refresh or update adds to your bill:

• Delete penalties
• Retention minimums
• API call surcharges

When teams start rationing runs, batching updates, or delaying refreshes just to control costs, innovation slows.

Specialized storage keeps costs predictable and workloads agile

Unlike the “big three” cloud providers, who often hide complexity behind convenience, specialized cloud storage providers like Backblaze B2 take a more transparent approach:

• Clear, predictable pricing means no surprise egress fees, retrieval costs, API charges, or deletion penalties.
• Always-hot storage eliminates the need for lifecycle policies and tier management.
• Open architecture means you stay in control—no proprietary hooks, no walled gardens, and no painful unwinding if your needs change down the road.

For cloud-native teams, this isn’t just a storage swap; it’s an operational upgrade. Streamlined management, lower risk, and transparent costs mean teams can focus on shipping new products and features, not decoding their storage bills.

In fact, Enterprise Strategy Group released a comprehensive analysis of the economic benefits of Backblaze B2 in May 2025. The analysis concluded that Backblaze B2’s storage costs (monthly storage cost + cost of downloads + cost of transactions) were 3.1x to 3.2x lower than alternative cloud storage providers.

Simple, transparent, affordable pricing enabled Backblaze B2 users to spend far less on storage and use the savings to innovate and grow.
—Enterprise Strategy Group

What’s next for you and storage?

If you liked this article, check out the first in the series, “Cloud Storage Myths Debunked: Hyperscaler Storage Is Good Enough for Cloud-Native Apps.” And, stay tuned for the next post in this series, where we’ll tackle myth #3, addressing whether onboarding specialized providers is too hard. (It’s easier than you think.)

Want to dig even deeper? Download the full ebook “New Cloud-Native Times Call for New Cloud Storage Approaches.”

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