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Amazon Web Services vs Backblaze

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Amazon Web Services

Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
Several products such as S3 are industry benchmarks
Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
30+ datacenter locations around the world

Backblaze

A fraction of the cost of AWS S3
Easy migration, S3-compatible API
Several data centers in North America and Europe

Price comparison

How do Amazon Web Services's prices compare against Backblaze?

Example configuration	Amazon Web Services	Backblaze
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)	--
VM Medium	$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)	--
VM Large	$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)	--
Block Storage	$8.00 / mo 100 GB	--
Object Storage	$24.63 / mo 1 TB	$6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)	--
Managed Redis®*	$114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)	--
Serverless 25M Executions	$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	100 GB / mo	3x the amount of data stored
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$92.16	$10.00 $0.01 / GB

AWS offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
g5g.xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	4	16GB	$0.42
g4dn.xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	4	16GB	$0.53
g5g.2xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	8	16GB	$0.56
g3s.xlarge	1x M60	8GB	4	30GB	$0.75
g4dn.2xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	8	32GB	$0.75
g5g.4xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	16	16GB	$0.83
p2.xlarge	1x K80	12GB	4	61GB	$0.90
g5.xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	4	16GB	$1.01
g3.4xlarge	1x M60	8GB	16	122GB	$1.14
g4dn.4xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	16	64GB	$1.20
g5.2xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	8	32GB	$1.21
g5g.8xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	32	16GB	$1.37
g5.4xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	16	64GB	$1.62
g4dn.8xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	32	128GB	$2.18
g3.8xlarge	2x M60	16GB	32	244GB	$2.28
g5.8xlarge	1x A10G	24GB	32	128GB	$2.45
g5g.16xlarge	2x T4G	32GB	64	32GB	$2.74
p3.2xlarge	1x V100	16GB	8	61GB	$3.06
g4dn.12xlarge	4x T4G	64GB	48	192GB	$3.91
g5.12xlarge	4x A10G	96GB	48	192GB	$4.10
g4dn.16xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	64	256GB	$4.35
g3.16xlarge	4x M60	32GB	64	488GB	$4.56
g5.16xlarge	2x A10G	48GB	64	256GB	$5.67
p2.8xlarge	8x K80	96GB	32	488GB	$7.20
g4dn.metal	8x T4G	128GB	96	384GB	$7.82
g5.24xlarge	4x A10G	96GB	96	384GB	$8.14
p3.8xlarge	4x V100	64GB	32	244GB	$12.24
p2.16xlarge	16x K80	192GB	64	732GB	$14.40
g5.48xlarge	8x A10G	192GB	192	768GB	$16.29
p3.16xlarge	8x V100	128GB	64	488GB	$24.48
p4d.24xlarge	8x A100	320GB	96	1152GB	$32.77
p5.48xlarge	8x H100	640GB	192	2048GB	$98.32

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Amazon Web Services and Backblaze offer:

Service	Amazon Web Services	Backblaze
Block Storage		--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
Container Registry		--
GPU-powered Servers		--
Load Balancer		--
Managed Containers		--
Managed Kubernetes		--
Managed MySQL		--
Managed PostgreSQL		--
Managed Redis®*		--
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)		--

Company details

	Amazon Web Services	Backblaze
Website	aws.amazon.com	www.backblaze.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006	2007
Data Center Locations	31	4
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune

	Amazon Web Services
Website	aws.amazon.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006
Data Center Locations	31
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro

	Backblaze
Website	www.backblaze.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007
Data Center Locations	4
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune