Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

> Except you can put R2 in front of S3 and set it to "slurp" mode. That way as objects are requested through the normal course of use they'll be stored in R2. You can then keep S3 as a backup, or delete the objects that have moved over. Being a proxy is cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28703464

Note: I think it's pretty obvious that they are very pro AWS. I saw a lot of positive comments and very few negative comments here. Reading the blog post makes it look like it was the inverse.

Re: Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

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Post by nixarn » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

brian_herman wrote: post #5

mmastrac wrote: post #4

I'm glad the article pointed out Q1 as the next opportunity

What about P0?

And O-1

Re: Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

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Post by sillysaurusx » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:36 PM UTC

Personally I find Backblaze B2 more compelling.

... Ok, after writing that, I realized that I should probably look up R2's offering first. And then my jaw hit the floor at "free egress bandwidth".

Free egress bandwidth? Yes please.

I will instantly convert.

Then I was worried about price per GB. $0.015/GB is incredibly competitive.

Good lord, where do I get early access to this thing? I'd transition all our infra today.

Re: Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

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Post by res0nat0r » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:37 PM UTC

The lower egress fees are super nice, but until someone can beat the Glacier Deep Archive pricing @ $0.00099 per GB I'm going to keep using that.

Re: Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 06, 2021, 4:38 PM UTC

res0nat0r wrote: post #9

The lower egress fees are super nice, but until someone can beat the Glacier Deep Archive pricing @ $0.00099 per GB I'm going to keep using that.

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