Backblaze B2 Price Increasing to $6/TB/month

So storage goes from $5 to $6 = 20% increase But we get free download x3 of whatever size we store there? It was 1GB a day limit before right? Above that its 0.01$ per GB, but thats same as before I think.

If all above is correct, its still not that bad imo, at least I dont have to be afraid of using backup, at least not for the first 3 times :)

I feel like this is probably a net boon? The 3x stored data free egress means you can test your backup to make sure it works without incurring potentially hundreds of dollars in egress fees to make sure your 3-2-1 last resort backup works correctly.

Plus it avoids the huge potential costs if you actually do need to use that backup of last resort in exchange for a higher monthly fee.

Free egress is bittersweet. IIRC, previously if you ever actually needed your data back it would cost a lot to download. I don't think this is better on average but it's not quite a 20% bump considering that.

This also might allow more interesting integrations where you send and receive large data to your store frequently?

For anyone who doesn't know, egress is already free if you route it through CloudFlare's Bandwidth Alliance Program from a few years back. If you are already using this setup, there doesn't appear to be any up side to this up coming change (other than the bill).

I didn't use them for instance media storage because of egress fees. Maybe now I can switch.

I was just looking for cheap backup space recently and Hetzners Storage Box BX21 is 13€ per month for 5 TB, 20 Snapshots and unlimited traffic. I did not compare the service with backblaze yet, though.