Pat Patterson 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸

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Are you getting the full picture of how your cloud storage is being accessed? #BackblazeB2 now offers Bucket Access Logs—a powerful feature that delivers detailed records of every access request to your data. Join me next Wednesday and learn how to query these logs for insights, audits, and improved security. 📅 Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 | 🕒 10am Pacific | 💻 post.dsmn8.com/jc077VNCGY #CloudStorage #Observability #DataSecurity #BackblazeTechLab post.dsmn8.com/SbHyFTrmuW

Why does @awscloud hate C++? Most of the AWS SDKs have supported overriding the endpoint URL via the AWS_ENDPOINT_URL environment variable for about two YEARS now, but still no sign of C++ support! github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cp…

Congratulations to @Sammy_Sidhu and Eventual on their funding round. I've been giving @daftengine, their distributed data engine, a spin recently - great stuff! Expect a post on the @backblaze blog soon on how to access Apache Iceberg tables stored in #BackblazeB2 from Daft

@idrawrobots @BillQueens @SubwayTakes Absolutely not! The Romans were (mostly) not Jews; neither were the Greeks, the Egyptians, in fact, most of the population of the world at that time.

@BillQueens @SubwayTakes Wasn't everyone a Jew?

Jesus was not a Republican!! Feat Steve Coogan

@mholt6 @backblaze ...and "If your use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy on a regular basis, we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service." [2/2] #free-egress-policy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wasabi.com/pricing/faq#fr…

@mholt6 @backblaze Yeah, Wasabi knocked unlimited egress on the head at some time after that. Now: "If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy"... [1/2] #free-egress-policy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wasabi.com/pricing/faq#fr…

When did @Backblaze B2 become the cheapest hot storage? It used to be Wasabi last time I checked.

@gyulanemeth85 @travisstreet_ Wasabi cap your free egress at the amount of storage you're paying for. Backblaze offers free egress for up to 3x your storage, then $0.01/GB, no cap.

@travisstreet_ this is the first time I hear about that! Gonna check out. The great thing in wasabi is that there is no egress fee!

@HackNSoul @thdxr 30 day retention applies to deleted/overwritten files and disconnected external drives. Your current files are retained as long as your subscription is active.

@thdxr It's like Backblaze 30 day retention. If you don't access your data, say goodbye to it.

hetzner deleted 8TB of data from a customer randomly and there's a thread on HN where people are saying you should own your own hardware and colocate no matter what you do there's always other people demanding you to do their hobbies

Handy cheat sheet for configuring CORS for #BackblazeB2 buckets, from @Ziberna @matijazib/setting-up-cors-rules-for-backblaze-b2-latest-4abb23a26b2c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@matijazib/set…

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@JAYTEEAU @backblaze @akleinbert Hi! 1 failure *in the quarter* across 246 drives = quarterly failure rate of 0.4% = annual failure rate of 1.61%

@backblaze @akleinbert Hi Team, I just received the email and this caught my eye. Can you explain the math? 1 Failure across 246 drives ≠ 1.61%

Drive Stats guru @akleinbert never fails to deliver new insights, and this report, he's bringing a peek at how drives are declared "failures." Read the full report🔥➡️ hubs.ly/Q02XV1-10

@johnrushx @Emu4iOS You can find #BackblazeB2 at backblaze.com/cloud-storage

@Emu4iOS where do i buy that?

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So the brain worm serial cheater who decapitated a whale & dumped a dead bear is gonna be in charge of our nation’s health and the chick who shot her dog and her goat and lied about meeting with Kim Jong Un is gonna be in charge of our homeland security. We are living The Onion.

@bstrat515 @PopBase Don't mind me - I'm just here for the ratio 👍🏻

@PopBase Who drinks wine while playing games with kids?

Kamala Harris spending time with her great-nieces in new photo.

@WadeWegner @Presidentlin @digitalocean @backblaze I don’t think we really do compete - you’re in a different price bracket for storage, and we don’t do any of the other stuff 😜

@metadaddy @Presidentlin @digitalocean @backblaze I love good competition, Pat! I'll be sure to talk to the team. Hope you're doing well! We need to catch up again soon. ❤️

Kinda crazy @digitalocean charges $5 for their S3 offering in a world where @backblaze sells the same but per TB ($6).

@Presidentlin @WadeWegner @digitalocean @backblaze Oops - @Presidentlin - I guess that question was aimed at @WadeWegner, rather than me! 😂

@Presidentlin @WadeWegner @digitalocean @backblaze Hopefully not - #BackblazeB2 is 1/3 the price of DO Spaces - $6/TB/month!

@WadeWegner @Presidentlin @digitalocean @backblaze Hi Wade! 👋🏻

@metadaddy @Presidentlin @digitalocean @backblaze hi Pat!