Vultr Expands Partnership with Backblaze

Vultr, a cloud computing company and a trademark of The Constant Company, LLC., and Backblaze, Inc. announced an expansion of their partnership, to offer a range of integrated solutions of cloud compute and object storage.

Customers can utilize cloud compute instances from Vultr that connect with Backblaze B2 buckets via an S3 Compatible API, enabling users to scale their compute and storage needs up or down on demand. The joint solutions also offer predictable billing for compute and storage, with no-cost egress on data transfers between Backblaze and Vultr.

Building on the partnership initiated in 2021, the 2 partners are providing a developer-friendly alternative to the complex solutions provided by the big tech clouds. Customers benefit from local access to offerings from Vultr, including cloud GPUs (based on the NVIDIA HGX H100, A100, A40, and A16), cloud compute, optimized cloud compute, and bare metal, with integration with Backblaze B2.

The 2 companies also enable developers to get started and connect go-to software and hardware in minutes. Users can deploy customizable and scalable cloud infrastructure, thanks to both partners’ tech stack approach, which is compliant with stringent MACH Alliance standards, and built on API-first, composable infrastructure. These joint solutions are available across multiple regions WW, with local accessibility for developer teams in over 30 Vultr cloud data center locations across 6 continents.

“Developers need more affordable and better alternatives to the Big Tech cloud providers to scale their applications,” said Gleb Budman, CEO and chairperson of the board, Backblaze. “Together, Backblaze and Vultr offer everything developers expect in their cloud stack while freeing them from complex cloud infrastructure and unpredictable costs.“

The 2 partners have enabled a growing number of customers to achieve workload acceleration at a fraction of the cost provided by the big tech clouds. When Can Stock Photo, Inc., managing over 70 million images and videos to customers WW, needed to scale services and infrastructure to provide end-user experience to creators and agencies worldwide, they opted for the joint offering.

The company moved its image processing application from AWS EC2 instances to Vultr and migrated more than 600TB of data from Amazon S3 and Glacier into Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, with all image and video files in hot storage, including archived files. By doing so, Can Stock Photo processes videos 4x faster while cutting its infrastructure costs by over 50%. Monument Labs, Inc., in digital photo management, chose a lean infrastructure stack to run its AI software on Vultr, coupled with Backblaze B2 for its encrypted storage.

Thanks to that setup, the cloud service became the company’s flagship offering, drawing 25,000 active users. Black Innovation 2 Pty Ltd (Black.ai), which builds AI and computer vision systems, leverages cloud compute resources from Vultr for AI analysis and performant video storage, and services from B2 to ensure predictable storage and bandwidth as developers build, test, and deploy applications at scale.

“Vultr’s mission is to make high-performance cloud computing easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for businesses and developers around the world,” said J.J. Kardwell, CEO, Vultr. “We are focused on being the cloud infrastructure platform of choice for the composable age, and are committed to open innovation through our ecosystem of like-minded partners such as Backblaze, delivering a best-of-breed alternative to the walled gardens of the Big Tech clouds.“

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