Announcing a new integration between Backblaze B2 and Suite Studios’ S3 Native File Streaming that brings together scalable object storage and the familiar experience of working from a local drive.
Available today with Backblaze B2, the integration allows teams to mount a B2 bucket through Suite Studios and work with files as if they were stored on a high-performance NAS. Suite streams only the parts of each file an application needs, rather than requiring users to download entire datasets first.
Behind that experience, the data remains in Backblaze B2 as standard S3-compatible objects.
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To put Suite S3 Native to work on B2, contact Backblaze Sales or your Backblaze reseller partner. We can help validate your architecture, plan a proof of concept, and evaluate migration support for your existing data.
Your B2 bucket becomes the working file space
An existing Backblaze B2 bucket can now be used directly as a Suite file space. There is no separate storage environment hidden inside Suite and no proprietary segmentation happening in the background.
The relationship between the file system and the bucket remains straightforward:
- One file in Suite maps to one object in B2.
- The folder structure in Suite matches the structure in the bucket.
- Files remain standard, whole objects.
- B2 remains the system of record.
- Suite provides the high-performance file access layer.
For users, cloud storage behaves more like a shared NAS experience. For IT, the underlying data remains in a storage platform the organization owns and controls.
If your files are already stored in B2 as standard objects, Suite can connect to the bucket and make them available through its mounted drive. There is no need to create another copy, convert the data, or run a separate ingest into Suite.
One dataset, multiple ways to use it
The immediate opportunity is media production, where teams work with large files across editing, media management, transcoding, automation, archive, and distribution.
An editor can open high-resolution media in Adobe Premiere Pro through the Suite drive. At the same time, iconik or another MAM can index the library, Telestream Vantage can process the source files, and automation can respond to new objects written into B2.
Each application works with the same underlying media.
But this is not exclusively a media workflow. The same model has practical applications anywhere teams need to work with large cloud datasets through file-based desktop tools:
- Life sciences and biotech: Make genomic sequencing, microscopy, medical imaging, and instrument-generated data accessible to researchers without maintaining full copies at every location.
- Geospatial and earth observation: Work with satellite imagery, drone captures, LiDAR scans, and GIS datasets while keeping source files centrally stored.
- Engineering and design: Give teams file-based access to CAD assemblies, simulations, 3D models, digital twins, and high-resolution scans.
- Research and higher education: Create shared access to large scientific datasets for distributed teams while maintaining a common storage foundation.
These are emerging applications for the architecture rather than packaged Suite solutions today, but the underlying opportunity is clear: Large datasets become much more useful when people and applications can access them without moving them into another storage silo.
Built for active data
Media, scientific data, and geospatial imagery rarely sit still. Files are opened, reviewed, processed, moved, analyzed, and shared throughout their lifecycle.
Backblaze B2 provides always-hot, S3-compatible object storage with straightforward pricing and free egress up to three times average monthly storage, plus unlimited free egress through select CDN and compute partners.
That makes B2 a strong foundation for data that needs to remain active and accessible. Suite adds another way to put that data to work by making a B2 bucket accessible through a high-performance file interface.
Available today, with migration support
Backblaze B2 is available today for Suite S3 Native workflows.
If your data is already in B2, you can use an existing bucket as your Suite file space. If it currently resides in another cloud, on a NAS or SAN, or on tape, Backblaze can help plan and execute the move.
Organizations making a qualifying commitment can receive assisted migration into B2 through our Universal Data Migration program.
Bring the data into the storage platform you want to keep. Let cloud applications access it through S3. Let people access it through a high-performance drive.
One dataset. One storage foundation. Multiple ways to put it to work.
