Case Study: Bethel School District cuts cloud storage costs by 75% with Backblaze B2

Bethel School District cuts cloud storage costs 75% with Backblaze

Bethel School District, a public K-12 district in Washington, faced escalating and unpredictable cloud storage costs from using Amazon S3 to archive its 125TB of server backups. The high expenses were straining their budget and forced them to shorten data retention periods, which compromised their ransomware protection and disaster recovery preparedness.

The district implemented Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage as its new archive target, integrated with its existing Rubrik backup system. The solution from Backblaze was simple to set up and offered predictable, flat pricing. This switch resulted in 75% cost savings, allowing Bethel to reinstate longer data retention for better security. The implementation was minimal and the solution has proven to be a reliable "set it and forget it" system for the IT team.

Bethel School District