(backblaze ceo here) We're happy to take customers regardless of which API they choose. Sure, we make a bit more on our B2 Native APIs, but ultimately I'd rather we make it easy for them to use us how they wish.
(backblaze ceo here) Google and Azure continue to offer their own API as do we. They also offer S3 compatibility options to support customers who want to use S3-compatible products...as now do we ;-)
(backblaze ceo here) B2 is a great origin store for your video files. If you're streaming to lots of viewers, using a CDN with Backblaze B2 is optimal. We partnered with Cloudflare as a founding member of the Bandwidth Alliance so you can store your videos with B2 and transit them for free to Cloudflare, which can serve to your viewers.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that Cloudflare should not be used to deliver video files unless using Cloudflare's "stream" product, IE specifically this [1].
Please consider an Asia/Pacific data center. I am from India and my company was not able to use B2 due to high response times even from European DC. Even a DC in Singapore will be helpful for us.
Bandwidth in asiapac is very expensive for non-incumbents and India is no exception.
I find it bizarre how in India you can get 100GB of LTE for a few dollars but cdn bandwidth can cost content providers more than that - which is absurd.
Mobile broadband is witnessing intense competition in grabbing customers as millions of rural Indians are coming online. This started with a Petro-chemical billionaire starting Jio Network and giving free unlimited 4G data for a year(his company has 300million subscribers now).
Already 4 networks have exited the market and 3rd & 4th largest networks(Vodafone and Idea) have combined due to cash crunch. Airtel(earlier largest) has been raising outside money in hopes that it can survive the low prices. So there are only 4 networks remaining. Only recently they started increasing prices.
That billionaire is also going into Fibre(purchased his bankrupt bother company's infrastructure), maybe we'll see that competition extend to DC and interconnects.
When you say regular, I think you mean awesome Storage Pods that were lovingly purpose-built for affordable and efficient data storage (https://www.backblaze.com/b2/storage-pod.html).
*Edit -> Well, those plus the load balancing servers =D
(backblaze ceo here)
AWS is free to Cloudfront because that's an AWS service.
AWS/GCP/Azure are not free (and quite expensive) to Cloudflare.
Backblaze is free to Cloudflare.
