23 minutes readKey Takeaways Trust Real-World, Not Vendor Benchmarks Relying solely on a single cloud provider’s published benchmarks can lead to unexpected performance gaps. The Q1 2026 Backblaze report demonstrated that performance varies widely by region and provider – for example, AWS led in US-East file transfers, while Cloudflare R2 and Wasabi outperformed in EU-Central. Without validating… Read more »