Backblaze Opens US East Data Region

Backblaze, Inc. expanded with a new data region in the Eastern US.

The US East data region provides more location choice overall, bringing increased access speed for customers based in the Eastern US and greater geographic separation for backup data stored by businesses operating in other regions. The new region also helps provide an additional destination for businesses seeking to store copies of their datasets to 2 or more cloud locations for compliance and continuity needs. This cloud replication service is provided with free data egress, enabling customers to copy data across the Backblaze platform at no expense-making its object storage more compelling.

“Delivering more options for where and how our customers store data is part of the definition of ‘easy’ at Backblaze,” Nilay Patel, VP of sales, commented. “We are also excited to deliver more choices for our new Cloud Replication offering, including free egress between any of our regions. I speak to customers every day, and I know they’ll be excited and eager to put our newest region to work.“

Data stored in US East will reside in Backblaze’s newest data center, IAD 1, located in Reston, VA. This data center features an EB of capacity with room to grow further, and supports SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, and HIPAA compliance requirements to help ensure that data in the East region is safe and readily available for customers.

“As businesses’ storage and protection needs evolve, their methods and strategies will need to evolve with them,” said Gleb Budman, CEO and chairperson of the board. “Storing copies of data to multiple cloud locations is becoming the new normal. The expansion of Backblaze’s multi-region cloud infrastructure means customers can replicate data more cost effectively with free data egress.“

The new US East data region is available to customers. The company also shared more information about Cloud Replication on its website and additional insights on the US East data region on its blog.