It’s early days in decentralized storage and as Filebase COO Zac Cohen put it in an interview, “from an interoperability standpoint, it’s a little bit early to pick a winner in this space and every single blockchain is very different.” Rather than relying on a single decentralized storage provider, they provide options. They further simplify this by providing an S3-compatible API, so that you can take data from S3 and easily migrate to decentralized storage.
In a nutshell, Filebase is a centralized entity for decentralized storage - meaning that you upload your data to Filebase and they do the heavy lifting of distributing it to one or more decentralized storage solutions. That original interview does an excellent job of explaining what Filebase does, so I won’t spend a lot of time redefining their role as a storage provider. The New Stack interviewed the Filebase founders back in May 2021 and they’ve made some interesting progress in the intervening months. Filebase, a layer 2 decentralized storage company, is showing some early promise at becoming one of the key solutions for onboarding data to Web3 without the complexity. In cloud deployments, we’re seeing more multicloud solutions emerging to address this, but this may be an area where Web3 can shine if the complexity of configuration can be eliminated. Building out the infrastructure and application layer to avoid data inaccessibility becomes expensive, especially when you factor in copying it all to geographically separate zones and structuring in fail-safes (in case one of those zones experiences an outage). If connectivity between that storage and the user is severed in some way, it’s no longer accessible. One of the challenges that exist for all development environments is data availability - whether it’s on a storage array in your data center or stored in cloud object storage like Amazon S3.
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