What's good about...
Backblaze
- A fraction of the cost of AWS S3
- Easy migration, S3-compatible API
- Several data centers in North America and Europe
Flightcontrol
- Your AWS infrastructure is managed by a seasoned devops team at a fraction of the cost
- Excellent documentation and easy-to-use dashboard
- Great developer experience: preview environments, rollbacks, notifications, monitoring
- Deploy close to your users, supports 28 AWS regions
Price comparison
How do Backblaze's prices compare against Flightcontrol?
| Example configuration |
Backblaze
|
Flightcontrol
|
|---|---|---|
| Object Storage | $6.00 / mo 1 TB | -- |
| Free egress allowance | 3x the amount of data stored | -- |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $10.00 $0.01 / GB | -- |
Flightcontrol charges a fixed monthly fee to use their service in addition to the standard AWS usage costs. They claim this model gives you up to 75% lower costs at scale when compared to traditional PaaS offerings.
There are currently 4 plans available:
- Free: limited to 1 user, but commercial use is allowed.
- Starter $49/mo: includes 5 services and multiple users.
- Business $249/mo: includes 10 services, preview environments, RBAC and multi-region.
- Enterprise: custom pricing, SLAs, premium support.
Additional services cost $15-30/mo, depending on the plan.
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 Backblaze and Flightcontrol offer:
| Service |
Backblaze
|
Flightcontrol
|
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | -- | |
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | -- | |
| Container Registry | -- | |
| GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
| Load Balancer | -- | |
| Managed Containers | -- | |
| Managed MySQL | -- | |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | |
| Object Storage | ||
| Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) | -- |
Company details
|
Backblaze
|
Flightcontrol
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | www.backblaze.com | flightcontrol.dev |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2007 | 2021 |
| Data Center Locations | 4 | -- |
| Example Customers | Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane |
|
Backblaze
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | www.backblaze.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Data Center Locations | 4 |
| Example Customers | Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune |
|
Flightcontrol
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | flightcontrol.dev |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2021 |
| Data Center Locations | -- |
| Example Customers | Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane |
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Our data for Backblaze was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Flightcontrol on Aug. 16, 2024.