Backblaze vs Oracle Cloud

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

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

Oracle Cloud

Great price-performance ratio
Wide range of server configurations and managed services
Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
10 TB of free egress per month

Price comparison

How do Backblaze's prices compare against Oracle Cloud?

Example configuration	Backblaze	Oracle Cloud
VM Small	--	$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
VM Medium	--	$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
VM Large	--	$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Block Storage	--	$4.25 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$6.00 / mo 1 TB	$25.57 / mo
Load Balancer	--	$7.86 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)
Managed Redis®*	--	$27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM
Free egress allowance	3x the amount of data stored	10 TB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00 $0.01 / GB	$8.50 $0.0085 / GB

Oracle Cloud offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
BM.GPU.MI300X.8	8x MI300X	1536GB	56	2000GB	$6.00	Source

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 managed services that Backblaze and Oracle Cloud offer:

Service	Backblaze	Oracle Cloud
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

	Backblaze	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.backblaze.com	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007	2016
Data Center Locations	4	39
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

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

	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016
Data Center Locations	39
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia