

Something that is brought up less often, is the use of enterprise cloud providers AWS, Azure and GCP.

There are other competitors to Backblaze, like Wasabi, with comparable pricing. B2 from Backblaze is often recommended as a high quality and cheap cloud option, the cost is $5/TB /Month.

Unlimited personal clouds almost don't exist anymore, so most of us are paying by GB for our cloud storage. The main drawback of cloud solutions is that they are expensive. Cloud solutions are fully managed from the hardware side, and provide a great deal of convenience, often providing a great deal of reliability as well. It doesn't require the creation of a second NAS at a friends house, or the transport of external drives between locations for updates / storage. The cloud is often put forward as a good way to secure your data offsite. A common suggestion for data hoarder back ups is the 3-2-1 strategy, which dictates 2 local copies of data, and a third copy offsite.
