You don't have to train or educate anyone on S3. 'It was a natural extension for our engineers.'ĭespite the ubiquity of the S3 protocol among cloud developers and storage services, the Amazon Simple Storage Service remains a proprietary protocol of AWS, Staimer said. 'We are a little bit late to the game, so to speak, but we wanted to create something that was very unique,' he said. The experience of building up the data center infrastructure and storing data for both personal use and smaller businesses made the addition of object storage a natural progression, Kulkarni said. The company currently manages about 400 PB of data across 4 million users, according to Raghu Kulkarni, CEO of IDrive. IDrive has been in business since 1995, primarily selling online backup software and storage to individuals and small businesses, with some expansion of its backup services into the enterprise market. Why not try to sell it?' Business-class storage 'They took a page out of Backblaze's book,' Staimer said.

The price and feature list put them into direct competition with other S3-compatible object storage services providers, such as Backblaze, Wasabi and Seagate's Lyve Cloud, said Marc Staimer, president of Dragon Slayer Consulting. IDrive said it charges no ingress or egress fees for the service and doesn't charge for downloading data.įor comparison, AWS charges around $0.023 per GB for the first 50 TB per month for the S3 Standard storage class. IDrive e2, now generally available, offers the first 10 GB of object storage for free with additional space priced at $0.004 per GB, per month.

Idrive cost after first year