Backblaze Developer Newsletter—August 2025

Learn about the Backblaze B2 platform update, Drive Stats Q2 2025, leveraging Backblaze B2 in AI apps, and more.

Hi there,   The big news this month is the Backblaze B2 platform update, which brings you two features in private preview: Anomaly Alerts and our new enterprise web console, as well as general availability of Bucket Access Logs. Read on for links to the announcement in the Backblaze blog and details of an upcoming webinar where you will be able to learn more. We also bring you a fresh batch of Backblaze Tech Lab webinar recordings, the latest Drive Stats report, and a look at leveraging Backblaze B2 for AI applications. If there's anything else you'd really like to see here in the newsletter, on the blog, or on Backblaze Tech Lab, our weekly webinar series, please do let us know. Email your suggestions, and any other feedback, to us at evangelism@backblaze.com (or just reply to this email). Leveling Up Security: New Enterprise Features in Backblaze B2 Platform Update Last month we launched a new set of enterprise-grade security features for Backblaze B2, designed to help you detect unusual activity faster, manage access more precisely, and strengthen visibility across your storage environments. As part of this update, we are making two new technologies available via private preview: Anomaly Alerts, which leverages a machine learning (ML) algorithm to analyze usage patterns in your B2 Buckets to detect potential red flags, and our new enterprise web console, which simplifies storage administration at scale. We also gave you a roundup of a variety of security features we've debuted in the last year or so. Read more about these and other new features in the blog post.   Learn More About Our New Security Features → Backblaze Tech Lab Covers Bucket Access Logs, the New Enterprise Web Console, and More Since our July newsletter, Backblaze Tech Lab, our weekly series of technical webinars, has brought you a deep dive into the new Bucket Access Logs feature, the first public demonstration of the new Backblaze enterprise web console, and a discussion of hybrid cloud workflows for the media & entertainment industry. Click the link below to browse recordings of past webinars and register for upcoming episodes.   Check Out Backblaze Tech Lab → Securing Your Data in the Cloud: Key Features and Strategies In this webinar, scheduled for Thursday, September 18, at 10:00 a.m. PT, Troy Liljedahl, Director of Solutions Engineering at Backblaze, and Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist, will explore critical cloud security features and best practices. Troy and Pat will delve into new enhancements from Backblaze, such as Anomaly Alerts to help identify potentially suspicious patterns in data access, as well as discuss best practices regarding encryption, Object Lock, role-based access controls, and multi-factor authentication. Join us and learn how to leverage these advanced controls to strengthen your data protection strategies, mitigate risks, and ensure a robust cloud security posture.   Register for the Webinar → Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025 The Backblaze drive fleet has now grown to more than 320,000 drives, and writer Stephanie Doyle and Chief Technical Evangelist Pat Patterson have returned to crunch the numbers and provide their analysis of this past quarter's drive reliability data. How do the new crop of 20TB+ drives compare to their 14-16TB predecessors? Stephanie and Pat's blog post brings you all the details, as well as a link to the recording of their LinkedIn Live event where they presented their findings.   Dive In to the Data → Architecting Your AI Data Pipeline Using B2 Overdrive Data is the foundation of the AI lifecycle, from training data to checkpoints and serialized models. In this blog post, Jeronimo De Leon, Senior Product Manager, AI at Backblaze, takes a look at the AI data pipeline, exploring where object storage sits in each stage, and explaining how leveraging Backblaze B2 helps both increase performance and reduce costs for AI applications.   Read the Blog Post → Know anyone who might like this newsletter? Forward this email to them so they can subscribe! Backblaze, 201 Baldwin Avenue, San Mateo, California 94401 Unsubscribe Manage preferences