{"id":108216,"date":"2023-03-06T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=108216"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:03:09","slug":"backblaze-joins-the-cdn-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-joins-the-cdn-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Backblaze Joins the CDN Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb-bh-CDN-Alliance-Announcement--e1678122692442.png\" alt=\"A decorative image that features the Backblaze logo and the CDN Alliance logo. \" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb-bh-CDN-Alliance-Announcement--e1678122692442.png 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb-bh-CDN-Alliance-Announcement--e1678122692442-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb-bh-CDN-Alliance-Announcement--e1678122692442-1024x583.png 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb-bh-CDN-Alliance-Announcement--e1678122692442-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bb-bh-CDN-Alliance-Announcement--e1678122692442-560x319.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">As the leading specialized storage cloud platform, Backblaze is a big proponent of the open, collaborative nature of independent cloud service providers. From our participation in the Bandwidth Alliance to our large ecosystem of partners, we\u2019re focused on what we call \u201cPhase Three\u201d of the cloud. What\u2019s happening in Phase Three? <strong>The age of walled gardens, hidden fees, and out of control egress fees driven by the hyperscalers is in the past.<\/strong> Today\u2019s specialized cloud solutions are oriented toward what\u2019s best for users\u2014an open, multi-cloud internet.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I\u2019m particularly happy to announce today that we\u2019ve joined the CDN Alliance, a nonprofit organization and community of industry leaders focused on ensuring that the content delivery network (CDN) industry is evolving in a way that best serves businesses distributing content of every type around the world\u2014from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/case-studieskanopy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">streaming media<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/case-studiescan-stock-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stock image resources<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/case-studiesbig-cartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">e-commerce<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the content we consume today on our many devices and platforms is being delivered through a CDN. Being part of the CDN Alliance allows Backblaze to collaborate and drive innovation with our peers to ensure that everyone\u2019s content experience only gets better.<\/p>\n<p>Through participation in and sponsorships of joint events, panels, and gatherings, we look forward to working with the CDN Alliance on the key challenges facing the industry, including availability, scalability, reliability, privacy, security, sustainability, interoperability, education, certification, regulations, and numerous others. Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdnalliance.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDN Alliance<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdncommunity.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDN Community<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n<div class=\"abstract\" style=\"line-height: 1.8; margin: 24px 12px; padding: 24px 12px 10px 12px;\">For more resources on CDN integrations with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage you can read more about our top partners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/solutions\/cdn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backblaze joins the CDN Alliance, a community of industry leaders focused on ensuring that the content delivery network (CDN) industry is evolving in a way that best serves businesses distributing content of every type around the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":108217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[481,7,434,484],"tags":[468],"class_list":["post-108216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cdn","category-cloud-storage","category-featured-1","category-partner-news","tag-b2cloud","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A New Cloud Storage Collaboration: Backblaze Joins the CDN Alliance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Backblaze joins the CDN Alliance, a community of industry leaders focused on ensuring that the content delivery network (CDN) industry is evolving in a way that best serves businesses distributing content of every type around the world.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-joins-the-cdn-alliance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A New Cloud Storage Collaboration: Backblaze Joins the CDN Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Backblaze joins the CDN Alliance, a community of industry leaders focused on ensuring that the content delivery network (CDN) industry is evolving in a way that best serves businesses distributing content of every type around the world.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-joins-the-cdn-alliance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage &amp; 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