[Reminder] B2 Cloud Storage Product, Egress, and Pricing Updates

Backblaze is updating B2 Cloud Storage, including pricing and egress on October 3, 2023.

Backblaze will soon make several updates to B2 Cloud Storage as part of our continuing work to provide the best high-quality, low-cost cloud storage alternative to traditional cloud providers like AWS. I'm writing today to outline the changes, which involve updates to our pricing as well as platform improvements you can expect to see in the months ahead. I'll unpack them one by one: Storage Price Increase: Effective October 3, 2023, we are increasing the monthly pay-as-you-go storage rate from $5/TB to $6/TB. The price of B2 Reserve will not change. Free Egress: Also effective October 3, we're making egress free (i.e. free download of data) for all B2 Cloud Storage customers—both pay-as-you-go and B2 Reserve—up to three times the amount of data you store with us, with any additional egress priced at just $0.01/GB. Because supporting an open cloud environment is central to our mission, expanding free egress to all customers so they can move data when and where they prefer is a key next step. Product Upgrades: From Object Lock for ransomware protection, to Cloud Replication for redundancy, to more data centers to support data location needs, Backblaze has consistently improved B2 Cloud Storage. Stay tuned for more this fall, when we'll announce upload performance upgrades, expanded integrations, and more partnerships. Some things that aren't changing: Storage pricing on committed contracts, B2 Reserve pricing, and unlimited free egress between Backblaze B2 and many leading content delivery network (CDN) and compute partners are all not changing. And, of course, there's no change in our commitment to providing performant yet affordable cloud object storage for every customer who entrusts B2 Cloud Storage with their data.   You can find more information on the Backblaze blog including a FAQ covering some of the questions you might have, and you can always reach our Support Team at hello@backblaze.com for questions specific to your business.   Thank you for your continued business,    Gleb Budman CEO, Backblaze Backblaze, 500 Ben Franklin Ct, San Mateo, CA