# Does Dremio support backblaze b2 as a S3 source?

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**Created:** [February 11, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/does-dremio-support-backblaze-b2-as-a-s3-source/6979 "2021-02-11T22:51:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![gebrits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/gebrits/32/3136_2.png) [@gebrits](https://community.dremio.com/u/gebrits)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/does-dremio-support-backblaze-b2-as-a-s3-source/6979/1 "2021-02-11T22:51:08Z")

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Hi all, subject says it all:

Does Dremio support backblaze b2 as a S3 source?

Thanks,  
Geert

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/does-dremio-support-backblaze-b2-as-a-s3-source/6979/2 "2021-02-13T10:32:16Z")

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@gebrits  
Currently we do not support backblaze b2 as a S3 source

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**Author:** ![gebrits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/gebrits/32/3136_2.png) [@gebrits](https://community.dremio.com/u/gebrits)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/does-dremio-support-backblaze-b2-as-a-s3-source/6979/3 "2021-02-20T12:34:49Z")

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Is this on the roadmap? I’ve read somewhere that Minio is supported through it’s S3 compatible API.  
I’d somehow assumed this would mean that other S3 compatible services like Backblaze b2 and Wasabi would also work. Is there still some compatibility issue to be ironed out?

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/does-dremio-support-backblaze-b2-as-a-s3-source/6979/4 "2021-02-21T20:58:52Z")

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@gebrits

Wasabi would work, for Blackbase b2, can you please try to add the end point via core-site.xml and the source’s advanced tab via add property? Also enable “Enable compatibility mode (experimental)”

Here is a past community link on Wasabi

> [@S3 bucket from non-Amazon provider](https://community.dremio.com/t/s3-bucket-from-non-amazon-provider/6755/3):
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> Ben, Thanks so much for this advice! Unfortunately I can’t seem to get Dremio to connect to the wasabi host ([s3.wasabisys.com](http://s3.wasabisys.com)). Here are the parameters I used: The exceptions sometimes show Dremio attempting to connect to [sts.amazonaws.com](http://sts.amazonaws.com), and other times don’t list host names - they never show traffic to [s3.wasabisys.com](http://s3.wasabisys.com) at com.dremio.plugins.s3.store.STSCredentialProviderV1.getCredentials(STSCredentialProviderV1.java:71) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.AWSCredentialProvid…