AWS, Wasabi, Cloudflare, and Backblaze go head-to-head in new cloud storage test Cloud storage buyers rarely get vendor-provided performance data that includes the vendor’s own weak spots. Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Performance Stats report, attempts to do exactly that, sharing benchmark results for Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Wasabi Object Storage across US-East and EU-Central regions, and including results where Backblaze’s own rate limits affected the numbers. The report is the second in a quarterly series. Backblaze publishes its full methodology and states that tests run from a neutral Vultr-hosted Ubuntu virtual machine, routed through Catchpoint’s network, to avoid identifying the test account as Backblaze-owned to competing providers. “What you’re seeing in this quarter’s…