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Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees

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Re: Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees

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Post by figassis »

This is amazing. I’m thinking of building the same thing for self hosted S3 (ie. Minio). I love AWS, they're very reliable and i feel like depending on them is not risky. But being 100% dependent on a single provider scares me a lot, and I often feel like S3 is the one thing that would cost me a lot if I tried to migrate. I have not accounted for all the data I have there, but it's lots of small files (all the user uploads), and what scares me is the per request cost of deletion (I think I read some horror story here sometime ago). So I keep pushing this off.

Re: Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees

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Post by pzmarzly »

It's a seemingly simple and obvious way to lazily migrate your data, but if using Sippy means one less thing for the application code to worry about, and (I assume) is a free add-on, then it provides a ton of value.

I have to admit that Cloudflare has been killing it recently with DevX / OpsX. If I wasn't against that company's role in modern internet (as a user of Tor, their firewall is annoying to no end), I would have tried them out already.

Re: Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees

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Post by Jamie9912 »

pzmarzly wrote: post #4

It's a seemingly simple and obvious way to lazily migrate your data, but if using Sippy means one less thing for the application code to worry about, and (I assume) is a free add-on, then it provides a ton of value. I have to admit that Cloudflare has been killing it recently with DevX / OpsX. If I wasn't against that company's role in modern internet (as a user of Tor, their firewall is annoying to no end), I would…

Cloudflare doesn't hate Tor. Blocking Tor is purely a customer configuration

Re: Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees

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Post by figassis »

pzmarzly wrote: post #4

It's a seemingly simple and obvious way to lazily migrate your data, but if using Sippy means one less thing for the application code to worry about, and (I assume) is a free add-on, then it provides a ton of value. I have to admit that Cloudflare has been killing it recently with DevX / OpsX. If I wasn't against that company's role in modern internet (as a user of Tor, their firewall is annoying to no end), I would…

This, CF is the only service that I find amazing, and that I do not use for anything. Compared to AWS, I think I prefer the "we're your unopinionated infra provider, if you want a WAF we have that too", vs the CF "block the world, especially the developing world, give zero craps about it". I fundamentally would be unhappy as their customer even if their service were stellar because I do not want my apps to be associated with this arrogant stance of "hey, your app blocks users from Nigeria".

Re: Cloudflare Sippy: Incrementally Migrate Data from AWS S3 to Reduce Egress Fees

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Post by supriyo-biswas »

figassis wrote: post #6
pzmarzly wrote: post #4

It's a seemingly simple and obvious way to lazily migrate your data, but if using Sippy means one less thing for the application code to worry about, and (I assume) is a free add-on, then it provides a ton of value. I have to admit that Cloudflare has been killing it recently with DevX / OpsX. If I wasn't against that company's role in modern internet (as a user of Tor, their firewall is annoying to no end), I would…

This, CF is the only service that I find amazing, and that I do not use for anything. Compared to AWS, I think I prefer the "we're your unopinionated infra provider, if you want a WAF we have that too", vs the CF "block the world, especially the developing world, give zero craps about it". I fundamentally would be unhappy as their customer even if their service were stellar because I do not want my apps to be associa…

With AWS, WAF unfortunately still incurs both the WAF request processing and the service’s own request processing pricing (such as Cloudfront or ALB), which means you still end up absorbing a large bill in case of an attack.

That'd be one distinct advantage of using Cloudflare over AWS, regardless of how opinionated it may appear; and you get to fine tune some of the settings if you're a paying customer.

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